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• Archive: One afternoon – after another failed attempt to get motivated to exercise – I (accidentally) started my first mini habit.
• I initially committed to do one push-up, and it turned into a full workout.
• I was shocked.
• This “stupid idea” wasn’t supposed to work. I was shocked again when my success with this strategy continued for months (and to this day). I had to consider that maybe I wasn’t the problem in those 10 years of mediocre results.
• Maybe it was my prior strategies that were ineffective, despite being oft-repeated as “the way to change” in countless books and blogs.I was right.Is there a scientific explanation for this?As I sought understanding, I found a plethora of scientific studies that had answers, with nobody to interpret them correctly.