EPISODE 6: SHARING YOUR 30 DAY PRACTICE
I’m en route!
As I wrote in a previous blog, I was exhausted 2 minutes into my test-ride. I suggested — with some quiet trepidation — that we don’t get in shape and then live. We get in shape by living. Since then, my number of kilometers per day has increased steadily.
As all adventures start in the same way … with leaving. Leaving is also where the hardest part often lives: Starting
Starting is hard. Procrastination is so much easier.
There are quite a few reasons why this is true: One is that procrastination is typically linked to impatience. Which means if you’re a relatively impatient person, you’re more likely to procrastinate, especially if there is a higher cost to delaying the task. Sit with that for a second: The greater the cost of NOT doing something means the more likely you’re NOT going to do it!
This is partly because people who are expert procrastinators are more impulsive and have a higher preference for more immediate rewards. Whereas people who tend to procrastinate less have a bias towards more distant rewards. What is more is that when we delay doing something we know we should do, your brain actually rewards you. Your reward areas become MORE active, basically as a form of self‐regulated failure that prioritises short‐term mood over long‐term gain.
How can we start? One strategy is shared ‘pre-commitment’.
To continue reading, please go here …
