Identity shifts are change boosters because they help us cultivate constellations of behavior — not just one or two habits here and there. This is im… - B. J. Fogg

you start eating like a person who goes to the farmers’ market, your brain begins guiding you in the direction of a coherent identity, and adding pumpkin seeds to your salad doesn’t sound like such a crazy thing anymore; it sounds natural.

To generate lots of behavior options, you can use the following categories during your own Magic Wanding sessions. What behaviors would you do one time? What new habits would you create? What habit would you stop?

Step 1: Draw a cloud on a piece of paper. Step 2: Write the aspiration “Get better sleep” inside the cloud. Step 3: Come up with ten or more behaviors that would lead you to your aspiration of getting better sleep. Write each behavior outside the cloud with arrows pointing toward the cloud. You’ve now created your Swarm of Behaviors. Step 4: Put a star by four or five behaviors that you believe would be highly effective in reaching your aspiration. Step 5: Circle any effective behavior that you can easily get yourself to do. Be realistic.