In the words of Stanford professor BJ Fogg, “You can never change just one behavior. You may find that the habit of checking your phone leads to the habit of clicking social media notifications which leads to the habit of browsing social media mindlessly which leads to another 20 minutes of procrastination. The Domino Effect holds for negative habits as well. As a personal example, if I stick with my habit of going to the gym, then I naturally find myself more focused at work and sleeping more soundly at night even though I never made a plan to specifically improve either behavior. You may notice similar patterns in your own life. One habit led to another, one domino knocked down the next.
The participants were never specifically told to eat less fat, but their nutrition habits improved as a natural side effect because they spent less time on the couch watching television and mindlessly eating. 2įor example, a 2012 study from researchers at Northwestern University found that when people decreased their amount of sedentary leisure time each day, they also reduced their daily fat intake. The Domino Effect states that when you make a change to one behavior it will activate a chain reaction and cause a shift in related behaviors as well. I felt like a woman who had miraculously pulled herself up from the energy-sucking Bermuda Triangle of Household Chaos.” 1
She later explained, “My act of bed-making had set off a chain of small household tasks… I felt like a grown-up-a happy, legit grown-up with a made bed, a clean sink, one decluttered cupboard, and a pig on the counter. Next, she found herself in the kitchen, pulling the dirty dishes out of the sink and loading them into the dishwasher, then reorganizing the Tupperware in a cupboard and placing an ornamental pig on the counter as a centerpiece. However, on the morning of that fourth day, when she finished making the bed, she also picked up a sock and folded a few clothes lying around the bedroom. For two and a half decades during her adult life, starting when she left for college and extending into her 40s, Lee never made her bed except for when her mother or guests dropped by the house.Īt some point, she decided to give it another try and managed to make her bed four days in a row-a seemingly trivial feat. Human behaviors are often tied to one another.įor example, consider the case of a woman named Jennifer Dukes Lee.
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