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How to reach your potential and not crash and burn like a SpaceX rocket🚀🔥 

1️⃣ 𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀
Goals that motivate are ones that are:

• specific and measurable,

• challenging but realistic, and

• are focused on process vs outcome.

2️⃣ 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘆
Commit to doing it for the next 2 weeks.
(Be sure it's something you're confident you can do every day.)

3️⃣ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀
Document behaviours, processes, and outcomes.

4️⃣ 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗱𝘆
Get help from someone you admire, and who will hold you accountable.

Thought of the week

I find behaviour change a fascinating subject, and am enjoying studying it.

Over the years I have tried to make changes and failed way more times than I succeeded. I used to go all in, a.k.a. the all-or-nothing approach.

There are 2 main reasons why we so often fail to create sustainable behaviour change:

1. We take on too much at a time.
If we want to create meaningful, long-term change, we need to start small.
It’s all about breaking down an aspiration into bite-sized chunks.
Do not go for the all-or-nothing approach.

2. We’re too ‘goal-obsessed’.
Instead of focusing on the goal we want to achieve, we should consider the person we want to become (and the processes/systems we need to put in place to get us there).

All-or-nothing approaches seldom work.
What happens is, we rely too heavily on willpower and motivation, and when we miss a day, think we have failed and abandon everything.

To create the right conditions for behaviour change we need to:
Make it easy
Make it obvious
Make it enjoyable

Two great books on this subject are
Tiny Habits - B.J.Fogg
Atomic Habits - James Clear

See you next week!

Paul