179. Convenience Builds Habits and Discipline Keeps Them

6:28pm, April 15th, 2024, Desk, UT

In order to get into a good habit, you first have to make it as easy as humanly possible to succeed. Otherwise you set yourself up for failure. This is just one way of thinking and one perspective. But if you sign up for a gym an hour away, the likelihood that you, without a good habit of hitting the gym daily, will actually make that drive every day, is extremely low. But if that gym were a 4 minute walk away, you’d probab;y adhere to the new plan more easily. The barriers and resistance are so little that it’s so easy for you to do this.

After a while of doing it, you build that discipline and consistency. Then, discipline keeps the habit going. So one school of thought here is that convenience and ease of execution is what gets a good thing going, but discipline and commitment is what keeps it long term.

Make it as easy as possible to work as hard as you can.