A decision without a system almost always fizzles out. How to weave an important task into a rhythm of regular actions so the effect starts to compound.
In our life, only the things you can turn into a cycle have any real power.
Some actions are one-offs, and some are systemic.
Writing down your goals for next year is a one-off action. You sit down, think it over, write it out — done. But if you don’t back that list of goals up with some kind of system, then next December you realise you barely looked at it and got almost none of it done.
A decision made + no system = failure.
So when an important and bulky task shows up in front of us, we need to ask ourselves: what system of regular actions or habits can I weave this process into?
You have probably heard the phrase that “you can eat an elephant one bite at a time”, but to chew those little bites regularly you have to set aside time for it in your schedule just as regularly.
If you do something regularly, the effect of it accumulates.
If a person reads every morning, they constantly learn something new, and it gets easier and easier for them to reach the goals they set.
If a person lies to the people around them every day, they quickly destroy their reputation and move toward isolation and loneliness.
So when we want to change something in our life, we need to ask ourselves: what system or habit do I have to build in order to work on this regularly? What will the rhythm of that action be? Once a day, once a week, once a month?
The things we do regularly are the things that become our life.
And what would you like to start doing consistently?
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