Join me for a February Micro-Action “Tortoise -vs- Hare” Challenge:

🐢 Set an intention for the end of the month. For example, move for 30 minutes a day, or meditate for 20 minutes a day, or eat healthier. 

🐢 Next get curious and have fun thinking about how to beak it down into micro-actions.  Now, what is the smallest step (or micro-action) you could possibly take, TODAY, to get started? 

🐢 Then just start it!  Use a activation phrase like Mel Robbins’ “5-4-3-2-1-Go!” 

🐢Celebrate the WIN! 

🐢 Repeat daily!! (Note: Use the calendar to check off the wins and/or to set micro-action steps.)

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Author Stephen Guise calls these “mini habits” - a very small positive behavior that you do every day. A micro-action step (mini habit) is “too small to fail” so we want to make it “stupid small”…making it easy, weightless, powerful, and guess what?…it is a superhero habit-building tool! 

😀 Thinking positively becomes thinking two positive thoughts per day. 

🧘🏻 Meditating for an hour a day becomes meditating for 1 minute or even 1 breath a day. 

🥗 You don’t need to eat perfectly today—just have a leaf of romaine lettuce to get started towards a eating healthier. 

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Remember: We want to make the micro-action / mini habit “too small to fail.” We want to build a solid base of CONSISTENCY, daily. So stupid or silly small…so that it’s harder NOT to do it than to just do it.

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Research shows our willpower is FINITE. Awesome thing about micro-actions / mini habits are we can have VERY little willpower, yet STILL do our micro-action step because the perceived difficulty is so low - hence stupid small! Too small to fail, y’all!!

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Some benefits of micro-action steps / mini habits: easy, routine, constant success, and builds momentum. They are too small to fail; and so they lack the common destructive feelings of guilt or inadequacy that can come with goal failure. 

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This process is focused on a systems approach that makes us feel successful…rather than goals approach that can set us up to feel we’re always not quite achieving. We’ve got a strong “encouragement spiral” and a always-attainable target to hit

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When it comes to taking micro-actions towards your intentions…it adds up over time. Like the Aesop’s Fable of the tortoise and the hare.

“Atomic Habits” author, James Clear’s research shows if you decided to make just a 1% change, daily, for 1 year, the compound effect would be 37x better/different than where you are now!! WOW!!

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Micro and consistent wins the race…I am betting on the 🐢 every time, y’all! How about you?

Look forward to hearing what your intention is and how it goes for you this month!

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My intention: 30 full push-ups. Today’s micro-step: one push-up on my knees….(paused)…just did it…WIN!! 💪🏻🎉