What goes wrong when you ignore that environmental design for habit support?

The most common reason fails: Redesigning your environment once and expecting permanent results — environments drift back toward entropy unless you build a recurring reset practice.

The fix: Walk through the space where you perform your most important habit. Identify three cues that support the habit and three cues that compete with it. Physically rearrange one supporting cue to be more visible and one competing cue to be less accessible, then observe what changes over the next five days.

The underlying principle is straightforward: Make the cues for good habits visible and the cues for bad habits invisible.