We don’t often think about the little things. Whether they’re little habits or little things that happen around or to us. I was listening to the Art of Manliness podcast and according to Dr. BJ Fogg keeping your goals small helps to build habits that last. By keeping your goals small he means taking something you want to do like workout everyday and to start by doing a two minute workout every time you get out of bed.
The podcast was really interesting, even if it sometimes veered into some strange examples. For example apparently every time our good Dr. Fogg does a number 1 he also does two push ups and then washes his hands (of course.) I thought this was weird until he told listeners that this is how he gets in fifty push ups a day. I was in, not for the push ups, mostly because my bathroom is too small. Joking. Mostly.
I decided to use the tiny habits method to help myself with too things I have fallen off on: stretching to improve my flexibility for climbing when I get out of and go to bed, or meditating for one minute until my bus makes its first stop. I’ve only been doing it for about two days but I have already found that these two things that would be hard for me to do are no problem now because I do them for amounts of time that I can throw away.
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