{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/repeat-the-behavior-in-a-stable-context",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0899",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Repeat the behavior in a stable context",
  "summary": "A habit learns the context that keeps showing up with it.",
  "kind": "template",
  "body": "The review found stronger habits when target behaviors were repeated in stable contexts. Choose a context you control reasonably well—after breakfast, after opening the laptop, on arriving home—and let that context become part of the cue. Stability matters more than inventing an elaborate trigger sentence.",
  "limits": [
    "Life schedules change; context stability is a facilitator, not a reason to make the routine brittle."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-habit-daily-operating-system"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-8A8121875B5A038C"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "The systematic review found stable context and repeated performance were important determinants of stronger habit formation.",
      "source_id": "RS-8A8121875B5A038C",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Life schedules change; context stability is a facilitator, not a reason to make the routine brittle.",
      "locator": "See source record"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "The same intended habit happens at a different time, place and preceding activity every day."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Life schedules change; context stability is a facilitator, not a reason to make the routine brittle."
  ],
  "example": "Do five minutes of mobility after the morning coffee in the same room rather than at a random free moment every day.",
  "check": "The behavior repeatedly occurs in a recognizable context that can begin cueing it.",
  "template": "When the stable context is [context], I perform [behavior] in [place/setup].",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-8A8121875B5A038C",
      "title": "Time to Form a Habit: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Health Behaviour Habit Formation and Its Determinants",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11641623/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0899",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0900",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/choose-a-time-cue-or-a-routine-cue-based-on-which-one-is-more-stable"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-886B56010DBE46F3",
      "title": "Build habits for real time scales, stable cues and automatic starts",
      "url": "/collections/build-habits-for-real-time-scales-stable-cues-and-automatic-starts"
    }
  ]
}