Three weeks ago, you started looking. Today isn't about another technique. Today is about noticing who you've quietly become.
Today's idea
There's a thing that happens around three weeks in. The participant stops thinking of themselves as someone who's trying to manage Type 1 and starts thinking of themselves as someone who manages Type 1. The shift is small. It's also the most important shift in the whole program.
Behavior design research calls this identity-based change, and finds it dramatically more durable than goal-based change. People who say "I'm someone who pays attention to direction and speed" keep doing that for years. People who say "I'm trying to remember to pay attention to direction and speed" drift back to their old patterns within months.
The Pro Tip series puts it this way:
Type 1 asks you to be involved every day. Being involved is the work. Three weeks of being involved is enough to change who you are in relation to it. The change is mostly invisible to anyone who doesn't know to look for it.
From Pro Tip 1025
You're now someone who's involved. That's not a small thing.
I'm someone who pays attention. That's already a different life.
Notice one moment today when you handled something differently than you would have three weeks ago. It doesn't have to be a big moment. The point is to see it.
Small Sip #1462 — More Insulin
What's one thing I now do almost without thinking — that three weeks ago I would have done differently or not at all?