From the course: How to Motivate Yourself to Do What’s Most Important
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Taking the first step
From the course: How to Motivate Yourself to Do What’s Most Important
Taking the first step
- [Instructor] The first step on a new project or initiative is always the hardest. The distance from here to there feel so enormous, but here are three ways you can get moving, even if your project or task feels daunting. Number one, think about the smallest possible action you can take. This is a strategy popularized by Stanford Professor BJ Fogg, who talks about training yourself to floss every day. By committing to floss just one tooth, it's so quick and simple, it seems ridiculous not to do it. But once you get started, you realize it's not that much harder to floss two or three teeth, or maybe even your whole mouth. The hardest part was the psychological barrier of getting started, so commit to something tiny. Number two, go for a quick win. It's so nice to get immediate positive feedback. And it makes a dramatic difference when you're in the fragile early stages of taking action. It'd be so easy to try something…
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