Make it Easy

This could be interpreted so many different ways, depending who you ask. For me, making it easy is important to ensuring I actually do the task.

I made getting in to shape easy by doing most of it at home. When I run, I leave from home and return home. Driving to a destination, getting setup and then running, then cooling down, driving home and then showering, doesn’t sound all that interesting.

Take writing for instance, it’s easy to do it anywhere, but it’s even easier if you have a new topic to write about before you start writing.

Shorten the distance and time from starting a habit, and your chances of actually attempting, starting and developing a good habit becomes simple.

Taking Out the Garbabe

Or mowing the grass. A lot of you might do this as soon as you get home. You’re essentially anchoring the habit to another.

This also make that habit easier to achieve and maintain. Your reducing friction to start a habit.

The friction is created when you arrive home and relax. That session of relaxing makes it more difficult to do something you already don’t want to do.

Our Efficient Use of Energy

Our bodies and minds naturally want to store energy and save it for when we absolutely need it. It’s primal. So when we see an opportunity to relax, we often take it.

You have to use what we know about ourselves, to our advantage.

Habit stack. Take a habit yo dislike, but need to do, and stack it with a habit you like to do.

There’s so many different ways you can reduce the friction required in order to achieve your goal.

| My Adaptation of Atomic Habits – Latrelle Brown | Atomic Habits – James Clear |