Progress Paradox: How Getting Better Makes You Worse

If you’re like me, you might read about structures or habits, go absolutely bananas with motivation, and hyper-schedule everything. You’ll feel great for one day, but then after time, you’re back to your same old tricks.

That’s because you haven’t developed habits.

Too much, too soon can absolutely affect you negatively, and when it does, you blame the system, or worse, yourself, for even trying to make things better in the first place. Even worse worse, you’ll say something negative to yourself like “yeah, see, that’s what I always get!” and confirm a negative belief / world view that doesn’t help you.

In order to combat all this, you need patience. Besides money, with patience, you can do just about anything.

Actions To Do

Here’s what you do:

• Make ONE change this week. Make it easy. Put it change right behind something you always already do.
• Commit yourself to being consistent with that one change.
• Commit yourself to doing that one change twenty times.
• When the change has become automatic and you don’t need to think about it anymore, then you can make one more change.

It sucks because you need to be patient.

In my 12,000+ hours coaching people, no one wants to be patient. They want everything immediately. However, patience is the fuel for discipline, which is the engine for consistency. If you want lasting results, you can’t rush the work.



Go make some BAD ART.