John AssarafBehavioral Neuroscience Researcher and Goal Achieving Expert. High Performance Consultant/Coach

You Have to Start to Succeed

Name: You Have to Start to Succeed
Uploaded: 2022-01-29T00:48:18+00:00
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Channel: John Assaraf
Description: John Assaraf recounts a personal anecdote about habit formation and following through on commitments. He and his wife adopted a "100-day rule,"…

29 Jan 2022 · 1 min

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John Assaraf recounts a personal anecdote about habit formation and following through on commitments. He and his wife adopted a "100-day rule," committing to do planks for 100 days; immediately upon deciding they performed a one-minute plank to demonstrate and experience the commitment. The anecdote illustrates starting immediately to build empowering habits and eliminate disempowering ones.

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Do you have a history of following through to completion on your goals, no matter how big or small? Let me give you an example of something my wife and I just did every year. We'd like to add a new empowering habit and get rid of a disempowering habit. So this year, while we were away on our little end of year vacation and reflection time, we said, what can we do for 100 days? I have a hundred day rule. So we made a commitment that for 100 days we're going to do planks, right? You know, planks to get our abdomens really nice and tight and get the core of our body. So when we made that commitment, we just said, since we just made the commitment, let's get down on the floor right now and do one minute of a plank. And she does Pilates and I exercise. And it wasn't a hard thing to do. But we knew that if we're going to make a commitment to 100 days, why not start right now? So to prove, to show and to experience the commitment, we just went and did it.