From: Rewiring the Addicted Brain: Scientific Paths to Recovery
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How can you sweep your environment to protect your goals?

Our physical environments are filled with subtle cues that trigger automatic behaviors. If you want to change a habit, you must change your surroundings. Removing visual triggers reduces the cognitive load required to stay on track.

Action

Identify one habit you want to break. Remove every physical reminder of that habit from your immediate living and working spaces today.

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