MotivAider User Post

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How to Know When the MotivAider is No Longer Necessary

"When should I stop using the MotivAider for a given purpose and what's the best way to stop?"

The ultimate aim of MotivAider use is to help you create a durable self-sustaining habit. You've achieved maximum success when you no longer need the MotivAider in order to consistently do what the MotivAider had been prompting you to do.

The MotivAider's job is to help you consistently take a desired action. In most cases, the benefits you experience when you consistently take the desired action will naturally reinforce the new behavior, make it self-sustaining, and make continued use of the MotivAider unnecessary. If you experience immediately rewarding results from engaging in the new behavior—and you don't feel much resistance to engaging in it—the new behavior should "set" pretty quickly and firmly. On the other hand, if the results aren't immediately rewarding and/or you feel significant resistance to engaging in the new behavior, then it will be harder and take longer to create a self-sustaining habit.

Once you're consistently behaving in the new desired way with the MotivAider's help, it's time to see whether the change will hold on its own. You do this by gradually phasing out the MotivAider.

Here are some tips on how to do it:

• Make a series of reductions in how often you receive signals. Each reduction should result in you receiving signals about half as often as you were receiving them before the reduction. For example, if you had been receiving signals every 10 minutes, you'd set the MotivAider to send you signals every 20 minutes.
• If a day or two after each reduction, you're doing just as well as you were before it, go ahead and make another reduction.
• If you're still doing well after 3 or 4 consecutive reductions (or after or 5 or 6 consecutive reductions if you had been receiving signals more often than once every 10 minutes before you began trying to phase out the MotivAider), try discontinuing the MotivAider completely.
• If at any time in the course of trying to phase out the MotivAider, you're not doing as well as you had been before you started trying, just undo the last reduction you made. If you're still not doing as well, undo the previous reduction, and so forth.
• Once you've been getting good results again for several days, you can try phasing out again, but this time make smaller reductions and don't try discontinuing the MotivAider completely until you've made more consecutive reductions without any backsliding.

By the way, if you successfully phase out the MotivAider for a particular purpose but later notice that you're not doing as well, don't hesitate to use the MotivAider again for that same purpose. Often, brief refresher use is all it takes to restore the gains you made earlier.

—Steve Levinson, Ph.D., Inventor of the MotivAider