MM#18--Make it Stupid Small

Welcome to the theory to action podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books and less time to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life. Now here's your host, David Kaiser .

Hello, I am David. And welcome back to another mojo minute. If we could let us dust off our old high school physics textbooks and recall the great sir, Isaac Newton's first law of motion. Quote, an object at rest will stay at rest unless an external force acts upon it. And the second definition, an object that is in motion will not change its velocity unless an external force acts upon it on quote . So let us build upon that learning and reflect on Stephen guys's wisdom in the great book, many habits, and as always, let's go to a quote from that book on the foundation of the mini habit system is in stupid small unquote steps. The concept of small steps is nothing new, but how and why they work have not been adequately dissected. Of course, small steps are relative to small step for you could be a giant leap for me saying, quote, stupid small unquote clarifies it because if a step sounds stupid relative to most, you can do it's perfect. Unquote , I love that. So for example, if you want to start a pushup routine, instead of starting with a hundred push-ups , let's start with one says, Mr. Guys, and I agree with him. If you want to write a 3000 word essay that becomes writing 50 words or one paragraph or one sentence, and if you would like to pray for 10 minutes, that becomes praying for 10 seconds. Getting up an hour earlier in the morning, becomes getting up five minutes earlier and so on you get the picture, make those habits quote, stupid, small unquote. And as we build our good habits into our life and reduce those pesky bad habits, get them out of our life. We can take this wisdom to help us craft our habit, forming processes and keep in mind to start small, stupid, small, so small that you can't really fail. And that's the beauty that guys tells us further in the book when you can't really fail, but add to it. Getting started and putting theory into action. Small act by small act, you build momentum, and that's how we get mojo team mojo academy. That's where mojo came from. So let's continue small act by small act. Let's make them stupid small step by step moment to moment to moment. So in today's mojo minute, let us begin the process of building good habits by starting stupid small and a little PS here. When I started writing these mojo minutes, I would often get writer's block and just couldn't get the words typed out. And I had a big fear of failure and 10,000 other negative thoughts in my head. And then I remembered this nugget of wisdom from the book, many habits. And now I write four to 600 words a day with no problem. So be encouraged. It does work no matter what your habit is, being encouraged. Just start stupid small, which sounds stupid, but it really isn't. It starts stupid small, and you will make progress. You will get some mojo going and then you'll lead a flourishing life. I'm confident in you be competent

In yourself.

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