HOW MUCH

Generate a new option by changing the scale, scope, or dose of the action.

Your doctor said move more, so you designed the full program: five gym mornings a week, an hour each. Week one was glorious. Week three collapsed under a work deadline, and since then you have done nothing at all, because in your head the choice is the whole program or the couch.

HOW MUCH generates a new option by changing the scale, scope, or dose of the action while keeping its substance. In the framework's option sentence, this move turns the "at what scale, scope, and dose" slot. The cue is all-or-nothing thinking: one giant version of the plan competing against zero. Run it by writing the same action at three deliberately different doses: 15 minutes of daily walking, two gym sessions a week, or the original five. Also vary scope: just cardio versus a full program, weekdays only versus every day. Each dose is a separate option with its own success odds, and small doses that survive real life usually beat large doses that do not. What changes is that the couch stops being the runner-up to an impossible plan. Skip this move when the outcome has a real threshold, like a medication or a training minimum, where a smaller dose is not a smaller win but no win.