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Step 3: Commit - Set up your action plan (20 mins)

Add a couple of the actions that you each intend to carry out below.

(Optional) Buddy
(who will check up on you to
Specific How you’ll do this
Commitment / Pledge see whether you’ve made your
behaviour (Include When and Where)
desired change / or help you
make the change

Replace my
bathroom By going to the Hardware Liam will go with Lily to the
(Example) Lily will showerhead with store in Fyshwick and buying hardware store to replace
one that has a 3-star a 3-star shower head next his shower head too
efficiency rating Saturday morning

Name will...

Congratulations! You’ve just finished your fifth workshop! Go you!

Before You Head Off

• Decide as a group when you’ll meet up again (same time, same place? Or maybe another group member’s
house?);

• Agree to have a quick squiz at the transport chapter before you meet up;
• Fish out your most recent petrol bills, or keep track of them between now and your next Transition Streets
session, and bring them along to your next session. (And if you have time, estimate roughly how much you
spend on travel each year (bus, fuel, maintenance, flights, etc.).
• Carry out your action plans from this session! And keep working on your other actions from the Waste and
Consumer Power, Energy, Food, and Water chapters. Only two more workshops to go!

FINAL TIP Remember that the way we form habits has a lot to do with belief and our sense of self-efficacy
– so if we think to ourselves ‘I can do this, and I will do it’ – we’re more likely to carry out our desired action.

39 Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Scheme, plumbing products.
40 See more on ICON’s standard pricing per kL of water here.

41 WaterRating.gov.au, ‘Water Efficiency’.
42 ICON Water, ‘My Home’.

43 For more information on reducing water use in Canberra see the SEE-Change resource page: http://www.see-change.
org.au/resources/water/ and for reducing water pollution see Access Canberra.

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