Break Bad Habits
Build Better Ones
Become Better Men
- Nate Whitson -
My wife loves to serve people with food.
It's pretty awesome because I happen to love good food, and me and my family benefit so much from her serving people this way.
But if there's a downside to it, it's this:
There is often food on the counter that I don't need to eat, but is readily accessible and easy to get to.
First-world problems, indeed!
But here's why I tell this to you: My goal is to get in great shape and to be disciplined with food.
Yet, I struggle with overeating and saying no to delicious food that is easy to get to.
How about you?
Or, maybe you're not like me and you're somehow great at saying no to food that's easy to access, but you struggle to do the right thing in other areas of your life. If so, the point of today's conversation is the same.
In order to change and grow in areas of your life like this, you need to learn to make bad habits and behaviors harder to do and harder to get to.
This is one of the most important things you can do to improve and grow as a man.
For me, it started with acknowledging the problem and then addressing it with my wife. I told her that although I appreciate her making yummy food and serving us and others with it that I (and our whole family) need help making it harder to get to it.
Yes, we may waste some of it, but at least it's not going to our waists!
She agreed, and so we made some small changes to our counter. Rather than keeping food (I'm talking homemade cookies, cinnamon rolls, breads, etc) visible and within arm's reach, we put it away and made sure it was not so easy or obvious to get to it.
That's the key!
If there are things in your life that you want to avoid, but they're sitting right in front of you and are both easy and obvious to access - you're sabotaging your own success!
So, move them or remove them and make them harder to reach.
Think about what this might look like for you.
What are the areas of your life that you want to change?
How can you make bad habits or behaviors harder to do?
How can you make them less obvious and visible?
How can you make them more difficult to reach?
Start here and you'll see that doing the right things is and avoiding the wrong things is instantly easier!
Nate
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P.S.
You don’t need massive willpower or a 10-step plan.
You just need to move the cookies off the counter—or whatever your version of that is.
Change gets way easier when you stop depending on discipline alone and let your environment do the heavy lifting for you.
Make it harder to do the wrong things and easier to do the right!
