“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” –Mary Poppins Apparently, medicine used to be gross, but you could get kids to take it by offering them a spoonful of sugar to go with. Nowadays, the sugar (or possibly artificial sweetener) is mixed right in, but there is still wisdom to found in this old aphorism. To be clear, I’m not talking about actual medicine. I’m talking about healthy… Read More »A Spoonful of Sugar…
What’s awesome? In other words … What’s going really well? What are you proud of yourself for doing? What are you grateful for? What is there to be happy about? What improvements have you made lately? How are you currently succeeding? What are you making progress toward? My answers: I’m doing more than ever, I haven’t missed a day in nearly three years, and I’m noticing the benefits in my… Read More »2 Questions
“It’s OK to suck. It’s not OK to skip.” –Brian Johnson1 We’ve all been there. Too tired to have a “good” workout. Too stressed to have a “good” meditation. Too busy to write a “good” blog post. These are all perfectly legitimate reasons to do a short workout, have a distracted meditation, or write a mediocre blog post. They are not legitimate reasons to skip. The key to sticking with… Read More »The Most Important Rule for Sticking with a Habit
In my original willpower article, I described how certain willpower-using behaviors provide a return on investment greater than the initial input. In other words, there are things you can do that cost willpower but which give you back more willpower than you put in. Today, I want to dig deeper into that topic and explain how you can choose to spend willpower in ways that maximize your return on investment.… Read More »Willpower Virtuous Cycles