Our theme all week is HABITS.
I’m coming out swinging today with a strong point of view because I see danger in how people approach habits. For adults, trying to create habits is overhyped, overvalued, and rarely produces the promised results.
Don’t buy the best-seller hype. Don’t make the same mistake as millions of other people.
The primary objective of modern habit training is to make the action easier and feel effortless. The promise is that you can create a habit so the behavior that produces the results you want happens automatically. That’s a mistake. It’s a false promise.
Habits take years of training to develop. You need thousands of reps for a useful behavior to become habitual enough to run without thinking and mental effort. Even then, the mental effort is significant, it just happens faster and smoother. What is commonly called a habit is a highly trained, deeply embedded, and well built skill.
You want to be in the skill development game not the habit creation treadmill.
Embrace the chase. Do the work.
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