Tiny Actions

By: Michael Beiter

One of my 38-year-old clients has been under the gun at work the whole first quarter.

On subjective scores, his food, movement, and sleep dipped to 2/10, 2/10, and 4/10.

If you asked him, his whole quarter was shit.

However, he admitted none of his scores were 0/10, and that disproves his overgeneralization of an entirely shitty quarter.

That insight leads us to decide what actions he'll take this next month.

They are: 1.) Take his lunch to work 15 times, and 2.) Put his newly purchased running shoes on 6 times.

For him, these actions would take his food and his movement to a 3/10, one point higher than March.

Masters take tiny actions and compound them to achieve excellent results.

Noobs try to jump from 2/10 to 9/10, fail, and wonder why they can't get anywhere.

Sack lunches and lacing-up sneakers are hardly Olympic-level expectations, and that's why they work.