Happy Wednesday my golf, fitness, want-more-out-of-life-than-the-average-chump friend. I’m just two days away from the Zac Brown concert here in St. Louis. And boy does he put on a show.
So yesterday, I told you we were wrapping up the habit-building kick we were on. After some great feedback, our Crew made a liar outta me.
So, I wanted to add a few extra tips and tricks to help you start building habits that will actually stick (“actually stick” being the most important piece of all this).
Here’s the thing…
Our lives are constantly getting in the way. There will be days when you won’t want to do your new habit. Or you’ll want to fall back to your old habits. In fact, in the early going, you’re going to have A LOT of those days.
So, here are three tips to take some of the pressure off:
- Recruit Partners: Find a buddy, or even better, a group of buddies who want to build the same habit. There’s a great group of like-minded people in the 18STRONG Membership…just sayin’.
We’re competitive people. And I’ll be damned if my buddy is going to beat me at anything.
- Terrible Consequences: This one is brutal, but effective. The trick here is to make the pain of skipping the habit more than the satisfaction you get from skipping it.
In other words…Each time I ___________, I will ____________.
For example:
Each time I skip my workout this week, I will contribute $20 to Woke People of America.
Every time I have more than one drink after work during the week, I will let my wife pick out the worst gym outfit she can put together.
This is a trick that can get super weird (and fun).
- #nevermisstwice: This happened organically through one of our coaching groups a few years ago.
Missing one day isn’t going to ruin your habit…but two? Yup, because two turns into 30 days before you know it. Never, ever miss twice. No exceptions.
Okay, now that I’ve gotten those off my chest, we can move on to a new subject this week.
But I’ll leave you with a final bit of advice…
KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Pick ONE habit. Make it a “yes” or “no” habit. Either you did it or you didn’t.
Words like “more” and “better” are useless. WTF does exercise “more” mean? You either walked for 30 minutes or you didn’t. It’s that simple.
You’ve got this.
Your #1 Fan,
Jeff Pelizzaro
PS – If you want to become a lean, mean, habit-dominating machine starting today…then the 18STRONG App could be your new home. No BS. No fluff.
We’ll do it together.