Maybe stop using necessary "preceeding" verbs and actions to indicate state, but use explicit ON or OFF to match the desired result? It is common in telling so

Maybe stop using necessary "preceeding" verbs and actions to indicate state, but use explicit ON or OFF to match the desired result? It is common in telling someone how to use a UX that they need to "disable" X or Y option, but, again, that is to say that the intended state is on or off.