About 15 years ago I used to go to the library every day (including weekends) for 1 year. I didn’t work at the time at all – I was just spending all my days reading books.
Sometimes I was really not in the mood for reading and was skipping many days in a row. After that I was scolding myself for the time wasting.
One day I said to myself: “Ok. I will go to the library. I will choose 10 books. I will browse them a little. And if nothing will really attract my attention I’ll leave the library”.
Guess what? 80% of times that trick made me enjoying the reading for all day long.
It was quite a small effort, right?
But could it be even smaller. I mean if you must to do something but have no desire – how small effort could be to do the trick?
“Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.” – Tim Ferris, “4-hour body”.
Can you imagine? Just one sentence a day?
Lately I tried to play with the trick for many months. I wrote quite a lot of stuff. It’s a real snowball.
The most important thing is that one sentence a day is a must – no skipping, no excuses. If you will forget to do it once – for the next week start a day with writing a sentence right after waking up: don’t let you do anything in the morning until you finish the task. And wait for a snowball to roll.
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