Make the Habit Easily Repeatable

Start out with a volume of work that's small enough that you don't dread doing it again the next day.

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A trick for creating habits, that lots of people get wrong:

Make the habit easily repeatable.

Don’t make it such a “big thing” that you do it one day and dread doing it the next day.

You know what happens to people who start their New Year’s weight loss resolution off with 3 hours at the gym every day?

They come for one day and then don’t come back!

So don’t do that.

Instead, start out with a volume of work that’s small enough that you don’t dread doing it again the next day.

It doesn’t matter if the volume of daily work is too small to achieve your long-term goals in the timeframe you want.

Eventually, as you build up a habit and your mind/body adapt to whatever it is you’re doing, it will feel easier to ramp up the volume of work until you’re moving at a pace that puts you on track to accomplish your long-term goals.

So don’t worry about total volume of work at the beginning. Just focus on consistency. As the habit sets in and you adapt, you’ll find it easier to increase your volume of work.

And as the habit settles into your identity, you’ll actually want to increase that volume of work.

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