We all have something we are trying to improve on.
Whether it’s to sharpen our minds, strengthen our bodies, boost our career or anything in between.
It’s difficult to change our routine.
So don’t.
Bake it into what you’re already doing.
I baked 180 push ups into my morning routine. I say that, not as a humble brag, but as a simple example of how this can work. So, stay with me.
Now, when I think about doing 180 push ups, there's so many ways to cut it up; ten sets of 18, three sets of 50 and an extra 30, and so on.
But for me, during my morning run I have four rest points.
So all I had to do was cut it into 4 sets of 45. Just add 45 push ups at every rest point, and I’ll be set.
And honestly, it started as 10 at each rest point.
And then 12, and then 15, and then 20 and so on.
When I first decided I wanted to do more push ups, I was setting aside an extra 10-15 mins at the end of my run. And because I was adding it to the end of my routine, I slowly started to look at it as a waste of time. 15 minutes went down to 10, then 5, then it was gone completely within a week.
As soon as I started to include it in my already-established routine, it felt so much simpler. I already carved out the time for my run, so now I just baked this in. I didn’t have to muster up new energy or space, it was already built into my morning.
In sales, we sometimes try to change what we’re doing or try to sell someone on changing what they’re doing, when really all we have to do is just compliment what’s already there. To find a way to bake it into what we or they are already doing.
Change is hard. Despite all the ways we know our life might improve, it can feel overwhelming to start. And even more daunting to maintain.
But if it simply fits into our current repeatable process somehow, it makes the possibility of not only action, but consistency attainable.
You don’t have to change your entire life, to actually Change. Your. Life.
You want something in life, bake it into what you are already doing, then increase the effort.
That’s when the real results will come.
Change is hard, but when we do it right, we can do anything.