Tools:  Resolutions Clipit  

A resolution is usually to change something you have been doing.  Write down what you have been doing and how you want it to change.  

Yes.  This is a test.  If writing it looks like too much of a bother, you can quit now. 

See:  Resolutions

 

Start:  Check with your brain.

How do the quiet parts of your brain react to this idea?   

How does this resolution fit with your other goals?

If you want to break a habit, do you have an instead to replace it?

 

Clear your head.

Imagine how things will be different if you do start keeping this resolution.

Mull over the questions on the left.  Listen to your Canter explain to you why you can’t possibly keep this resolution.

Are you sure your Canter is wrong?

No.   Quit now.
Yes   Make a preliminary Plan.

Preliminary Plan: List the main steps. 

How long will it take?  

How will you set cues?

What benefits or incentives will you expect?

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If you don’t know the main steps, the first step is to figure out the main steps

Need help?   Plan Clipit

Do you still think the benefits will be worth the costs?

No:  Then quit.  You quit as a winner if you don't lose.
Yes:  
Schedule a trial run  
Not sure:  Sleep on it. 
Check back tomorrow. 

Trial run working out?

Yes:  Start the policy maneuver.
No:  Go back to start

The policy maneuver:  Do you know how you will handle the exceptions and policy revisions?

Yes: Establish the policy and come back when you have an exception or revision.
No: Go figure out what you do not know and come back when you can select the Yes answer.

The Power of Positive Policies

  How to make a family policy
The Thinkerer 10/28/2008
Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans

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