New for 2009 – Simple Motivation

Posted on January 4th, 2009

As I searched for ways to motivate myself this year to do better in all sorts of activities (reading books, health awareness, blogging, new ideas, etc) I came up with a very simple slogan:

“1 plus anything = IMPROVEMENT”

When I disected the slogan, it made absolutely perfect sense.  Generally, the hardest thing to do is “getting started”.  For people trying to go on a diet, starting a workout program or any other self improvement activity, it is the simple task of starting and being consistent that causes most people issues.  Then it is being consistent.  Once no results or minimal results are recieved, then there is the tendency to start over or quit.

By simply understanding that doing your targeted activity once eacy day (or at your specified interval), you will always improve.  To take it a bit further, what I have decided to do is to alywas have something to do “once” per day everyday.  I may read a chapter of a book every other day and workout the days in between.  Then I may cook a new dish, every third day, etc.  What this does is build a consistency for “doing” something new.

Simple motivation techniques, or simple techniques in general, are ways to help improve livelihood.  I will be updating this blog, or Twitter references, with updates on how well this motivational technique is doing.

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