365 Days With Self-Discipline: 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success


Day 110: On Moving Yourself Closer to the Finish



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365 Days With Self-Discipline 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success by Martin Meadows (z-lib.org).epub

Day 110: On Moving Yourself Closer to the Finish

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People  find  it  more  motivating  to  be  partly  finished  with  a  longer

journey than to be at the starting gate of a shorter one.

—Chip and Dan Heath

 

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Think  of  the  difference  between  having  run  the  first  5  miles  (or

kilometers) out of 25 and having just taken the first steps of a 5-mile or 5-

km  run.  Even  though  they’re  so  similar,  according  to  bestselling  authors

Chip  and  Dan  Heath,  people  are  more  motivated  when  they’re  facing  the

first option.

Based  on  my  own  observations,  I  think  the  main  reason  for  their

findings  is  that  people  usually  find  it  difficult  to  start  something

challenging,  so  if  they  can  get  past  the  first  barrier  and  are  partway  there

(with some achievements under their belt), they’re fired up to continue.

You can benefit from this observation by moving yourself closer to the

finish line — yes, even if you’ve just set a new goal for yourself. The idea

is  to  fool  yourself  that  you’re  actually  somewhere  along  into  the  journey,

and  not  just  about  to  start  it  —  a  proposition  many  people  find  so

discouraging that they don’t even begin.

How  do  you  do  it?  If  you  want  to  build  a  financial  emergency  fund,

you  can  convince  yourself  that  you’re  already  on  the  right  track  because

you  have  some  source  of  income  (while  others  have  to  find  it  first),  or  if

not,  that  you  have  some  things  you  can  sell  that  are  actually  just  money

waiting to be converted into physical cash (you surely have something you

could sell, so this always works). Just like that, you’re no longer just getting

started with the goal — you’re already partly finished.

Let’s  go  with  another  example.  Imagine  you  want  to  have  a  flat

stomach or become more muscular. You’re already partly finished with this

goal when you can perform basic bodyweight exercises (people who can’t

need  to  learn  them  first),  if  you’ve  read  some  articles  or  books  about

exercise  (people  who  haven’t  have  to  educate  themselves  first),  or  if  you

have fit friends and support (others need to find it first), etc.



Whatever  your  starting  point  is,  think  of  what  you  already  have  or

what you’ve already accomplished and use it as a way of seeing that you’re

closer to the finish line than you thought.




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