Strategies for making your habits stick: go small

“Make it so easy you can’t say no.” —Leo Babauta

Go big, no limits, 10x… Talk to a clients about nutrition and everyone wants the meal tracking, meal planning, regimented diet. Do they work? Sure. Do they last? Not often.

When you get the Apple watch, almost everyone over estimates their movement, and do we rise to close those lofty movement goals? Maybe once or twice…

in a world where everyone is talking about doing huge things, when you actually look around it’s the small things done consistently that lead to big changes.

We think that there is something wrong with out motivation when we can’t achieve the loft goals. We end up thinking we have a will power problem when in fact we have a problem with thinking an easy goal isn’t a good one.

What happens when you pick a habit so easy that it’s impossible to fail?

• Rather than run for 30 minutes 3x a week, what would happen if we started with 5 minutes 2x a week and add a minute to that every week or month?

• Instead of putting an an extra $200 into savings each month, we put $20 and add a dollar to that amount every week or month?

• Set your move ring to 300 and increase by 5 or 10 when you reach your goal every day for a week?

When we start small and make small incremental improvements from that incredibly easy to achieve task we’ve set for ourselves. We’re slowly building that will power muscle at the same time, making it easy to keep improving in those small increments without even feeling like it’s work.