HOW TO BUILD A BETTER LIFE

 Whenever we want to change our lives, we come up with some pithy goal like: “make more money” or “lose 15 pounds” or “stop masturbating 6 times a day.”

OK, umm, that’s a start.

The problem is that these are just big actions. And anyone with some willpower can half-ass their way through a certain number of big actions. Real change comes from a change in your habits. And a change in habits comes from a long, sustained alteration of small actions.

Let me illustrate it this way for you: Let’s say you and I are driving along down the road, side by side, in separate vehicles. We come to a fork in the road, but the two roads in this fork are actually only separated by about one degree. I take one road, you take the other. Now we’re only traveling away from each other ever so slightly at one degree of separation.

At first, the change is so slight, you can barely tell that we’re technically traveling in different directions.

But over a long enough period of time, if our paths maintain one degree of difference in direction, we’ll wind up far, far away from each other.

Creating lasting change is exactly like this. There are small (but important) course corrections you can make right now that, over time, will put your life in a very different place from where it is now.

Again though, most people focus too much on the destination – lose 50 pounds; get a promotion; make more money; go on a gazillion dates; bang the quarterback/head cheerleader/librarian; etc. – when instead, they should be focusing on the systems they have in place to get them there. Because with the right system, your goals practically take care of themselves.