1- Make your goal specific

Whatever your big goal is, the fact is it is to not going to be accomplished all at once. Every big goal is nothing but the accumulation of much smaller bits and pieces that if done consistently, will eventually lead to the bigger goal.

For example, if you want build muscle, you have to do a list of exercises to cover the major muscle groups. So you have to make a list of the exercises you would like to make sure you do: push ups, squats, burpees ... etc

Without these specific exercises, the goal would seem too big and too far to reach so giving up is the easiest way out.







2- Daily tiny habits 

Once the big goal is clarifies with a list of specific tasks or small goal or a to do list ... You have to make sure that these tasks become DAILY tasks that eventually will be come habits. And this is why they have to be broken down into a much more specific daily goals.

For example: if in the first step, you specified the muscle building goal with a list of exercises, now you have to make sure you define how many push ups, squats ... you will do EVERYDAY. This will make the goal more realistic, feel achievable and give you a sense of daily accountability because you know exactly with numbers how many you have to do before you go to bed.

The same would apply for a writer, define how many words you will write a day ...


The power of tiny habits is incredible. Most people quit when the goal feels too overwhelming and this is how to make feel less so.









3- Incentives

Humans are no different than animals. We need a reward for every effort. The main reason we are more likely to NOT start is because the reward feels so far away. If we create a small reward today following the activity we need to do daily to reach the bigger goal, we would have a practical "something" to chase which is only human even if you feel the opposite.


For example, if you need to do 50 push ups a day towards your big goal, then link those push ups with morning coffee for example. You must do 5 push ups before you can have your morning coffee. 50 Squats before you can have lunch and 50 burpees before you shower...


This not only feels like you are being immediately rewarded for your effort but it make the activity much more likely to happen because it is now related to another activity you already do and enjoy.