Fail Until You Don't by Bobby Bones

Author:Bobby Bones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

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EXERCISE: CREATE A HABIT

If you are just starting out or know that you have trouble keeping resolutions, begin with a very small and doable action. Stay away from enormous and amorphous goals, like “I want to be more positive.” You can’t just switch something as internal and massive as your level of negativity by whipping out a Sharpie and writing it down. Instead, you have to work backward and figure out the smaller steps required before you can take on that larger Fight. (For instance, a good step toward “being more positive” might be to write down five positive thoughts every day.)

Because the point of this exercise is disciplining yourself to do something over and over (the essence of a habit), it doesn’t need to be hard. A big part of training is just remembering! Putting something into your daily routine—and making sure it happens regardless of rain, snow, sleet, or a new Netflix series—is the first, most important, and only step of this exercise.

So pick something small. It can even be something that doesn’t make sense to do, such as keeping a quarter on the corner of your night table and flipping it over once every day. (I’ve never done the quarter exercise. I just happen to be looking at a quarter on my table right now. But if I were to make that my latest discipline, I would drive myself crazy making sure I remembered to flip that freaking quarter over.) All you’re doing is training yourself that the one little thing, repeated every day, is important—because it’s the start to many other achievements by giving you confidence to try other, bigger tasks.

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