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The Importance of Having a Date and Time Plan

Research does suggest that you make a concrete plan and then that plan comes with a trigger queue. I did one study where we showed that prompting people to write down the date and time when they would get a flu shot significantly increased the number of people who showed up for a flu shot over a message that conveyed all the same information but made no prompt about making a plan. We don't think it was the writing it down that was important. The sort of bundle of evidence that led us to try this intervention was all around how important it is to have a concrete date and time plan when you want to follow through on something.

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