Self Mastery
Course Overview
Contents › Learn
A path from assessment to coaching — follow the tabs in order for the full ProgressTracks journey.
Turn intentional choices into patterns that support your life.
Understand how habits and behaviors develop, then learn practical ways to interrupt ineffective patterns and build healthier ones that become easier with practice.
- Understand habit and behavior patterns.
- Recognize cues, routines, rewards, and reinforcing consequences.
- Replace ineffective behaviors with healthier alternatives.
- Use environment, repetition, and identity to support change.
- Build sustainable routines without relying on willpower alone.
Understand how needs, rewards, emotions, beliefs, cues, consequences, and repetition influence behavior.
- Behavioral purpose
- Needs
- Rewards
- Repetition
- Consequences
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Recognize recurring sequences of cues, actions, rewards, and reinforcement that make behaviors increasingly automatic.
- Cue
- Routine
- Reward
- Reinforcement
- Automaticity
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Identify what starts a behavior, what keeps it going, and what payoff makes the pattern worth repeating.
- Triggers
- Rewards
- Immediate payoff
- Long-term consequences
- Reinforcement
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Learn practical ways to disrupt familiar sequences before they reach the usual behavior.
- Pattern interrupt
- Pause
- Alternative action
- Trigger plan
- Practice
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Design alternative behaviors that meet the underlying need more effectively instead of leaving an empty behavioral gap.
- Replacement behavior
- Underlying need
- Alternative reward
- Healthy substitutions
- Practice
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Use physical, digital, and social environments to make desired behaviors easier and unwanted behaviors harder.
- Environment design
- Friction
- Cues
- Access
- Social influence
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Connect repeated actions with the person you want to become while avoiding perfectionistic identity labels.
- Identity
- Values
- Repeated choices
- Evidence through action
- Growth identity
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Use preparation, simplicity, prompts, routines, and small actions to lower the effort required for desired behavior.
- Reduce friction
- Preparation
- Prompts
- Small actions
- Consistency
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Treat setbacks as useful information and return to desired behavior without all-or-nothing thinking.
- Slips
- Learning
- Avoiding shame
- Restarting
- Continuous progress
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Create a personalized system for choosing, practicing, tracking, and refining behaviors that support your goals and values.
- Habit selection
- Routine design
- Tracking
- Review
- Adaptation
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Learn to experience an urge without automatically obeying it.
Develop practical skills for understanding and managing cravings, impulses, compulsions, appetites, addictive behaviors, and other patterns that can take control of your choices.
- Understand triggers, urges, cravings, and reinforcement patterns.
- Practice urge surfing, delay, replacement, and response strategies.
- Identify environmental and emotional triggers.
- Build healthier alternative behaviors and support systems.
- Learn from setbacks and continue progressing without all-or-nothing thinking.
Understand how appetites, cravings, impulses, and urges arise and why experiencing an urge does not require acting on it.
- Appetites
- Urges
- Cravings
- Impulse
- Choice
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Map the sequence from trigger to thought, feeling, urge, behavior, reward, consequence, and renewed vulnerability.
- Trigger
- Urge
- Behavior
- Reward
- Compulsive cycle
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Practice observing an urge as a changing experience that rises, shifts, and passes without automatically acting on it.
- Urge surfing
- Observation
- Body sensations
- Acceptance
- Waiting
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Build a practical menu of immediate options that create time and distance between an urge and an unwanted behavior.
- Delay
- Distraction
- Substitution
- Choice
- Emergency strategies
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Explore how imagery, self-talk, attention, sensory qualities, and meaning may influence the subjective intensity of cravings.
- Internal representation
- Imagery
- Self-talk
- Attention
- Sensory qualities
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Reduce exposure to triggers, increase friction around unwanted behaviors, and make healthier alternatives easier to access.
- Trigger reduction
- Friction
- Access
- Environmental cues
- Healthy alternatives
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Identify the need, relief, stimulation, connection, escape, comfort, or reward the behavior provides and develop healthier ways to meet it.
- Underlying need
- Emotional payoff
- Replacement
- Healthy reward
- Meaningful alternatives
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Build appropriate support through trusted people, coaching, recovery communities, healthcare, counseling, or other resources when useful.
- Support
- Accountability
- Coaching
- Professional care
- Recovery communities
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Respond to setbacks with honesty, learning, renewed support, and practical adjustment instead of shame or abandonment of the goal.
- Relapse learning
- Triggers
- Plan adjustment
- Support
- Return to progress
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Create a flexible plan that brings together triggers, coping skills, replacement behaviors, environmental changes, support, and ongoing learning.
- Trigger plan
- Urge strategies
- Replacement behaviors
- Support
- Continuous refinement
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Bring everything together into a life you intentionally choose.
Connect Self Mastery with your values, character, purpose, relationships, contribution, and long-term vision while continually refining your Personal Self Mastery System.
- Clarify values, principles, purpose, and personal direction.
- Align daily behavior with the person you want to become.
- Strengthen character through repeated intentional choices.
- Review progress and adapt strategies as life changes.
- Create and continually refine a lifelong Personal Self Mastery System.
Define the qualities, principles, relationships, contributions, and ways of living you want your choices to reflect.
- Desired character
- Identity
- Relationships
- Contribution
- Vision
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Identify the principles and priorities you want to guide decisions when competing demands pull you in different directions.
- Values
- Priorities
- Tradeoffs
- Decision guidance
- Alignment
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Explore the people, causes, responsibilities, beliefs, experiences, and contributions that give your life meaning and direction.
- Purpose
- Meaning
- Direction
- Service
- Contribution
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Understand character as something strengthened through repeated choices, especially when doing what matters is difficult.
- Character
- Repeated choices
- Consistency
- Courage
- Growth
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Align what you believe, say, choose, and do so your life increasingly reflects your values.
- Integrity
- Alignment
- Authenticity
- Honesty
- Consistency
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Treat time, attention, energy, health, relationships, and opportunities as limited resources to be used intentionally.
- Time
- Energy
- Attention
- Stewardship
- Renewal
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Make intentional tradeoffs among many good possibilities so what matters most receives appropriate attention.
- Priorities
- Tradeoffs
- Decision-making
- Boundaries
- Focus
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Connect self-mastery with how you love, serve, influence, mentor, create, contribute, and leave people and places better.
- Relationships
- Service
- Contribution
- Influence
- Legacy
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Regularly examine what is working, what has changed, what you have learned, and where your next opportunity for growth may be.
- Reflection
- Progress
- Learning
- Assessment
- Next focus
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Bring together the principles, strategies, routines, relationships, resources, and practices that help you live intentionally and continue refining them throughout life.
- Personal Self Mastery System
- Best strategies
- Best routines
- Support network
- Lifelong refinement
Planned lesson · Coming soon
Ready to start? Enroll or begin your free trial above.