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We are looking for research participants for a 5 day online & email program to build Tiny Habits for Sustainability/Ocean Conservation. Tiny Habits is an easy method to establish the goals you want. In less than 1 hour you will set up tiny habits to learn to live a more sustainable life to help protect our beautiful blue planet for generations to come.
Tiny Habits
Behavior change requires more than awareness and education. Lasting change comes from creating tiny positive habits, changing your environment, or having an epiphany (Fogg 2020). The Tiny Habits® method is an easy and evidence-based approach to incorporating new behaviors into one’s existing daily routine (Fogg 2020). The Tiny Habits® method helps people establish habits that are important to them by focusing on behaviors they want to do rather than those they feel they should or need to do (https://recipemaker.tinyhabits.com/tiny-habits).
The Fogg Behavior Model demonstrates that human behavior occurs when motivation, ability, and a prompt are all present simultaneously (Fogg 2020). These three variables drive all behavior change. Ability and motivation work together. The more you have of one, the less you need of the other. If you have little motivation, then the behavior needs to be easier to do.
The Tiny Habits® method involves 3 core components called a “recipe“ (After I [anchor moment], I will [tiny behavior], Celebrate [emotions create habits). The “anchor moment” is an existing behavior in a person’s daily routine that prompts the new tiny behavior. The new behavior is easy; and a tiny version of the behavior a person wants to create that takes less than 30 seconds. Right after completing the tiny behavior, a person celebrates doing the tiny habit. Celebration creates a positive feeling (eg. yay me, I did it, fist pump…). Positive emotion reinforces the tiny behavior and the anchor moment increases the automaticity to create a habit.
Why is sustainability important?
In order to protect the world’s precious natural resources and ecosystems individuals and households need to adopt more sustainable lifestyles and behaviors. Human actions of mass consumption and use of fossil fuels have led to loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, climate change, ocean warming, sea level rise, decline in fishing stocks, and agricultural, chemical, and plastic pollution. Human actions are threatening the ability of global ecosystems to maintain planetary life-support systems (Steffen et al., 2015). Tiny habits can help people make sustainable lifestyle changes they want to make for a healthier family, community, and planet.
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