The next step in the masterplan is to scale back your ambitions, and you can do that in the following ways. Set a shorter time period for stopping habit (stop smoking for three days instead of forever) Do an unwanted habit for a shorter duration (watch TV for thirty minutes instead of four hours) Do fewer instances of the unwanted habit (checking social media once a day rather than ten times) Do the unwanted habit with less intensity (pace your drinking rather than downing shots)