I recently read a book,  Mini habits by Stephen Guise.   

His premise is simple; before we can rely on a habit, we need to train it.   How do you train a habit?

According to Guise, the worst thing we could do to start or adopt a habit is making it hard to sustain.   If you want to become a writer, for example, and you commit to writing 4000 words a day.   Or if you're going to start an exercise routine, you commit to exercising 60 minutes a day.   Face it that sounds hard….  I always wanted to adopt the habit of creating content, to write every day.   But my goals were big, 1000 or more words, researched, published, SEO optimized.. it took for ever..  so the habit never stuck.

In his book, Guise suggests that to rely on the habit, we need to train it first.  And the way to do that is to make the requirement so small that there was no excuse to skip it.   

If you want to for a habit of exercising every day, why not commit to doing just one push up?,  if I want to write every day, why not start with only one word.   I committed to writing every day, with a minimum of 50 words.   

The idea is that when you start that small, most likely you will end doing more than you are committed to doing.  And then, when you have the habit formed, (time will depend on the person), you can add more responsibility to the habit.   So instead of 1 word, then you can say 200 words….   Instead of one push up, then you can say 15 pushups.   

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I am on day 43 of my 50-word challenge, and it is actually getting easier and easier.    

 “Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results, instead of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results”.  -Stephen Guise

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