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Go small or go home.
Baby Steps to Booyah!
Have you broken your 2020 resolution yet? If not, bravo!
If so, don’t worry, we got this. We’re gonna start over in a better way.
The secret is in the size of the promise.
We must be brave enough to make teeny, tiny commitments — because when we succeed at keeping those commitments, that builds self-esteem, and self-esteem builds confidence, and confidence bolsters success, and success builds self-esteem, and…well you get the idea.
So, for instance, my commitments this January had to do with meditation, working out, and writing. Initially, I wanted to meditate 30 minutes a day every day, work out for an hour twice a week, and write every day. As moderate as that sounded to me, it was still way too much. It didn’t work.
So I decided to go tiny.
Meditation: I decided to meditate for five minutes every day. I can do anything for five minutes. That worked.
Working out: The thought of going to the gym for an hour was a nonstarter. I’d think about the extra forty minutes (twenty there, twenty back), and for some reason, an hour and forty minutes twice a week…it just never happened. So I tricked myself…
