Everything is well and good. For a couple of months, your new activity is so new and exciting that you practice everyday! Watch YouTube videos. You go above and beyond the call of duty, because you're on an adventure! Hooray!....
But in time, you miss a couple of practices, start YouTubing Fail videos, and eventually you give up entirely.
Yeah, it even happens to me.
I dream of these great things I want to learn and rarely get past the novice stage. My recent failed project is learning to play guitar. I bought this electric guitar from the pawn shop (chipped and everything), replaced the strings, purchased books, signed up for lessons... the whole shabang (sp). But I haven't touched that sexy beast in weeks. I suck at life. How will I ever play spanish guitar in Spain at this rate? (yeah, I want to do that!)
Turns out, the problem isn't that we suck at life (for most of us), but rather that we don't understand how to build the habit. Most of us assume that we can live off of the idea of achieving the goal. We imagine that the passion is strong enough to carry us through when sleep is more appealing than practice, when ordering a pizza is more appealing than that salad, when video games are more appealing than studying. It's really a relationship between you and that dream. What happens when the puppy love runs out and all you have is is a dusty, chipped guitar?
I think I may have an answer! What if I told you that a Stanford social psychologist studies this phenomenon? What if I told you, that he developed a method of creating habits that stick? What if I told you, he offers this service for free? I'm currently setting myself up to get back on track with my guitar! Here I come Spain!
What if I told you you can find him here, at TinyHabits?
Ready to get back on track?
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