Environment Audit

The Intent

Integration starts by aligning your surroundings with your goals. The Environment Audit helps you shape them so that aligned actions become effortless, while misaligned actions become inconvenient.

The Practice

Choose one area of your life, such as your workspace, home, or device, that most influences your focus and your routines. Identify the environmental triggers within that cause distractions or delay. Add friction to them: place them out of sight, require extra steps, disable notifications, or delete an application. Next, identify what supports your goals or allows you to focus: tools, reminders, materials, guides. Reduce the friction by bringing them closer, making access easier, and ensure they have a visible presence. Observe the overall flow of your environment and keep refining it until the Path of least resistance is the Path that leads you toward desired actions.

The Insight

Your environment silently trains your behaviour. When designed with intention, your environment guides your behaviour without willpower, integrating your goals directly into the world you live in.