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4,984 protocols across every category, most recommended first.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsGive Excited Children a Brief Outlet Before Returning to Task
If a child is overly excited and can't stop talking, give them about a minute to express it, then return to the planned activity.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsWork With Your Body Rather Than Trying to Conquer It
Use physiology-supporting practices rather than fighting bodily states; includes taking care of sleep, exercise, and sunlight.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsEmotional Intelligence Training
Recommended for all children, analogous to physical education, so they can regulate better than prior generations.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsTake a Day Off From the Gym When Needed
Recognize when recovery or life balance calls for skipping a workout; use reflection to distinguish legitimate need for rest from avoidance or laziness.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsTake Progress Photos Monthly
Track physical progress objectively by taking front, side, and back photos every month; he did this religiously for four years.
- ▶ 1SupplementsTricyclics
Helpful medications for OCD alongside SSRIs.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsReduce Visual Exposure to Temptation
To improve self-control around tempting items, reduce visual contact by physically covering the item or closing your eyes instead of staring at it.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsUse Approach/Avoidance Movement Cues for Food Choices
In training paradigms, pull a joystick back away from foods you should avoid to create psychological distance, and move it forward toward foods you should eat, such as broccoli, to reinforce approach behavior.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsUse Aversive Imagery for Temptation
Use aversive imagery to reduce desire for tempting foods; example given was imagining a cockroach crawling across cake.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsThink About Short-Term Losses of Indulging
When resisting temptation, focus on immediate downsides of indulging rather than only long-term outcomes; example: think about the sugar crash you would experience after eating cake.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsLower the Activation Energy to Start
When initiation is the hardest part, use a tiny first step such as simply putting on workout clothes to get started.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsUse Willpower for the Final Push
For the last rep or final minute of a hard effort, grit your teeth and push through using willpower.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsMatch Motivation Type to the Task
Use gains- and advancement-oriented motivation for offense-like tasks, and safety-, security-, and loss-prevention-oriented motivation for defense-like tasks.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsUse Consistency as a Motivator
Maintain an unbroken streak or repeated pattern because the pattern itself can become motivating above and beyond the original goal.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsAllocate Specific Time for Social Media
Use designated time windows for social media rather than unrestricted access.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsInclude Intrinsic Rewards During Exercise
Pair exercise with something enjoyable to improve adherence over time; example given was listening to your favorite music while on the treadmill.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsWrite Thoughts Down
Writing thoughts can support emotion regulation and motivation by externalizing them and creating distance.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsUse Nostalgic Music as an Anchor
Music that evokes nostalgia may help create self-continuity and reconnect you to who you were and who you've become.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsTake Breaks and Opportunities to Take Your Foot Off the Gas
Build in breaks rather than staying relentlessly goal-directed all the time.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsReal-World Exposure for Social Anxiety
For social anxiety, do the feared social behavior in real life rather than imagining or simulating it; the goal is exposure to the actual situation so beliefs about others can update.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsAsk People for Help to Reduce Fear of Rejection
Use asking others for help as an exposure exercise if worried about rejection; the point is to learn that acceptance is more common than expected.
- ▶ 1DietVenison
Venison from deer you harvest can be used as the only red meat in the diet, making it a specific preferred red-meat choice rather than a generic protein example.
- ▶ 1ToolsCrossbow
Host says he hunts only with a crossbow because it allows greater accuracy and more ethical, humane, quick kills.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsFace Pulls
Essential for improving posture, rear delts, and general shoulder stability.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsGlute Medius Pressure-Point Leg Raise
Lie on your side and do a leg raise down and back while holding pressure on the glute medius pressure point to relieve spasm/discomfort and restore normal motion.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsKeep Training Around Injuries
Continue to train around aches, pains, and injuries rather than stopping entirely; stopping accelerates decline. If free-weight pressing hurts, use a machine press; if you cannot press at all, use rowing as an alternative to keep the joint moving and trained.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsHip Bump Against Wall
Stand on the leg furthest from the wall, let the hips drop, then slide yourself back toward the wall to level the pelvis; targets glute medius.
- ▶ 1BehaviorsReverse Hypers
Can be done anywhere, including on a bed in the morning with torso supported and legs hanging off. Raise heels/legs to near parallel, hold briefly at the top, and consciously squeeze the glutes so the glutes—not low-back arching—do the work.
- ▶ 1ToolsReverse Hyper Machine
Machine version provides resistance via straps over the legs for loaded reverse hypers.
- ▶ 1ToolsMini Hip Band
Small elastic loop band recommended for targeting smaller hip muscles; described as a small investment.