Jared GoetzZenpire · CEO & Founder at Zendrop

The trick to implementing new habits…

15 Feb 2023 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains why the mind resists taking on many new health‑related habits at once—anticipating fatigue, lack of time, and overwhelm. To bypass this resistance, the speaker recommends committing to an extremely easy, low‑effort version of the desired habit (e.g., reading just one page per day). By setting such a minimal target, the mind is less likely to reject the behavior, and people often end up doing more than the minimum, establishing consistency and momentum for larger habit changes.

You know, if you want to implement new habits and you want to start exercising and eating right and meditating and journaling and going in a cold plunge, your mind is going to start to play tricks on you. It's going to tell you that that's way too much stuff. I'm going to be so tired. I don't have the time to do it. So the trick is, is just committing to something really easy. For example, you want to start reading. You don't have to commit to reading 20 pages a day. That's overwhelming. Commit to reading 1 page a day. And then what ends up happening is that you almost always read more than 1 page.