Situated for Success

You don't have a discipline problem. You have a situation problem.

If you've ever set the same goal year after year - the same resolution, the same "this time will be different" Monday - and watched it quietly fall apart by week three, this book will change how you think about why.

It's not that you lack willpower, motivation, or grit. It's that your environment, your relationships, and your daily defaults have been quietly working against you the whole time - and no amount of trying harder can out-muscle a life that's set up to make success harder than it needs to be.

In Situated for Success, Vance Schmitt delivers a practical, no-fluff guide to redesigning the three forces that shape your behavior more than mindset ever will:

• Your environment - the rooms, desks, kitchens, and digital spaces that quietly decide what you do before you consciously choose it

• Your relationships - the people whose pace, standards, and beliefs shape your own without you realizing it

• Your defaults - the automatic choices running your life on autopilot, for better or worse

Change what surrounds you, and you can change what becomes easier to do.

Through real, relatable stories, simple science-backed strategies, and hands-on exercises you can start using today, Schmitt shows you how to stop fighting yourself and start building a life that makes success the easy choice - not the hard one.

Here's what you'll discover along the way:

• Redesign your physical and digital spaces to remove friction from good habits and add friction to bad ones

• Audit your closest relationships and find the one small adjustment that changes everything

• Build habits that stick using pre-decision and habit-stacking techniques - no willpower required

• Make real progress even when your situation feels impossible to change

• Use small, sustainable changes that compound into lasting transformation

• Build a simple, repeatable 5-step system to keep your life working for you, not against you

Complete with a 30-day journal, reflection prompts, and a troubleshooting guide for when life inevitably shifts, Situated for Success is the practical guide for anyone ready to stop blaming themselves and start changing what's actually in their control.

You are not stuck. You are situated. And situations can be redesigned - starting today.

Perfect for readers of habit formation, personal development, self-improvement, and behavioral psychology books who are ready for real, sustainable change.