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So, when scheduling your next plan, the steps that you should follow are these: Be careful about not exceeding the deadline, limit the time that the project should take at most, and also count as a safety factor for guarantee. For example, if you guess designing a website takes three days and it has to be done in time, add just a half-day as a safety factor. Chapter 10 - Adjust a tripwire to change from autopilot to manual command and apply a decision. When something becomes a part of our everyday routine, the gradual changes usually go unnoticed, and this could expanse to a radical situation. Thus, there’s a need for a metaphorical “tripwire” which is a warning to make us care about our behaviors and stimulate us to get correct when required. To achieve this, you can set some obvious signals that could save you from any “autopilot behavior.” For example, Zappos, an American shoe seller, offer their workers $4000 in return for their resignation. So, if they’re not like working there anymore, they can take the money and easily leave. This is an example of a tripwire that help unsatisfied employers to evaluate their conditions. It reduces indecisive actions caused by the habits and encourages a healthy decision-making process. ( A bonus: by doing this, the firm can get rid of ineffective staff) You can also determine deadlines, and compartments to keep you safe from getting distracted from your habits. Deadlines keep us motivated to apply a decision that we would normally postpone. For example, one research paid college students $5 to fill out a survey. Without a deadline, only 25% of the students completed the survey, whereas this percentage rose to 66% when the deadline was given as a five-day. Compartments also function just like that. For example, dispense the smaller amount of money instead of putting all your saving at one time, it could encourage healthy attention. Each step of your compartmental investment functions as a tripwire to give you signals that everything is under control. Finally, you can also try to use some labels to notice positive or negative elements. For example, pilots are trained with a specific notion called leemers, which is to explain the ambiguous emotions that there’s something wrong, but the reason is not clear. Considering that they name this weird feeling, it can be said that the pilots can’t ignore their feelings. As it’s clear, when the lives of people are concerned, even just a weird feeling can appear as a tripwire that stimulates you to be more careful in a given situation. As you can see, when what’s at stake are the lives of many people, even a nagging feeling can act as a tripwire prompting you to pay conscious attention to the situation. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath, Dan Heath Book Review Whenever you need to decide something, apply the WRAP-process: Expand your possibilities, Run a small test of your ideas, establish an observer perspective, and ready to be wrong. Set a deadline. So, next time you think about doing exercise, prepare a good schedule for it. This will help you to realize what your priorities(exercise) are and make you sure that you won’t sacrifice it to anything more urgent, to do dishes for example. Search for other options. If you’d like to know whether should attend an invitation or not, makeup at least two other options, for example, watching a movie, or taking a good rest at your bed and taking a walk the next day. By doing this, you can evaluate more effectively what other alternatives you have.