Habit Systems and Behavior Design
A deck on moving from outcome goals to identity goals, with tiny actions as the evidence.
When a habit is tied only to a result, such as a weight, a book or a savings figure, it can dissolve once the result arrives or slips away. This deck explains a different anchor, your sense of who you are, and gives you the tools to teach it or try it.
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This is a ready-to-use, editable PowerPoint deck of about 50 slides on identity-based habits. It contrasts outcome goals with identity goals, explains the voting system, and gives a six-step blueprint, five life-area examples and worksheets. It suits professionals, students, creators and coaches.
The deck begins with the habit paradox: the cycle of failed resolutions, the outcome-based trap and the willpower drain, illustrated by a beach ball held underwater. Chapter 2 builds the case for identity, with the identity-behaviour loop, James Clear's three levels of change (outcome, process and identity) and the question your brain asks in every situation: what would someone like me do here?
Chapter 3 shows how to design your desired identity, with identity-revealing questions, a comparison table of outcome-based and identity-based goals, and the voting system, where each small action is a vote for who you are becoming. The Writer's Identity example runs from outcome goal to tiny action to evidence built. A six-step blueprint follows: choose a target identity, start with tiny aligned actions, favour consistency over magnitude, use environmental and social cues, increase intensity gradually and reinforce periodically.
Applications cover fitness, career, finance, relationships and creativity. The setbacks chapter covers the non-smoker example, never missing twice, the uncomfortable identity transition phase, Albert Bandura's self-efficacy and Daryl Bem's self-perception theory. Chapter 7 provides an Identity Design Worksheet, a Tiny Habit Tracker, an environmental cue design slide and a Social Reinforcement Plan, and the deck closes on the 1% mindset and your first vote.
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Use the identity questions and the worksheet on slide 43 to help a client name the person they want to become, then choose one tiny first vote.
Contrast the outcome and identity goal table with the group, then have each person write an I am statement and one tiny action.
Read the six-step blueprint, complete the worksheet and use the weekly identity check-in on slide 26 to keep it alive.
Download the deck instantly, open it in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, and edit it as you wish. Slide 50 asks for the first small action, so you can finish the file with one already chosen.
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Yes. It is a standard .pptx file with editable text, shapes and tables, so you can change wording, colours and order and add your own examples. It opens in PowerPoint and Keynote, and you can upload it to Google Drive to open in Google Slides. Layouts can shift slightly if a font is missing, so check the slides before presenting.
This deck is part of Habit Systems and Behavior Design, ten decks sold singly for INR 99 (USD 1.49) or together for INR 599 (USD 7.99). The others are: 12-Week Goal Systems; Accountability Rituals; Breaking Bad Habit Loops; Cue-Routine-Reward Models; Environment Design for Better Habits; Habit Reviews and Scoring; Habit Tracker Design Principles; Micro-Habits for Busy Adults; Streak Systems Without Burnout.
Both. It works as a talk or workshop, and the worksheet, tracker and social reinforcement plan suit individual reflection.
The deck addresses this with Daryl Bem's self-perception theory and Albert Bandura's self-efficacy, and suggests starting with tiny actions before the belief arrives. It is a teaching framework, not a promise of results.
Yes. It does not discard outcome goals. It treats them as the destination and identity as the direction, and shows both in the comparison table.
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Yes. It is standard PowerPoint (.pptx), so you can change text, add your logo and remove slides. It opens in PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides.
Because it is a digital download, files are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
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Turn what you take from this deck into an individual development plan (IDP) on Jobulary, starting with a target identity and a first tiny action and a review date.
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