Goal achievement strategies that require less effort and can be automated, such as leveraging vision, may be more effective and sustainable than effortful self-reminders.

“And that's, I think, because those tactics that are our go-to strategies are themselves a goal to maintain. So it's double sided, we're putting so much on ourselves to try to advance the thing that we originally set out to accomplish. So then, with my team, I was trying to think of, like, "Well, what are strategies that don't require as much effort, that we can automate, that we can take advantage of what's already happening within ourselves, within our body, within our mind, that might overcome one of those challenges, that'll be easier, more automated?"”