Mark Forster

Is my health the way I want it to be?
Is my fitness the way I want it to be?
Is my weight the way I want it to be?
Is the way I am dressed the way I want it to be?

It may be that you are healthy, fit, slim and well-dressed. In which case have a look round at the state of your office or workplace:

Is it as well organised as you want it to be?
Is it as tidy as you want it to be?

Do all your office systems (filing, invoicing, correspondence, etc.) work the way you want them to work?

What one is always aiming for is to make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong one. Is it easier for you to fill in your tax return than not to fill it in?

Resistance to doing a task is largely a matter of the reactive brain seeing the task as a threat.

The easiest way to do this is for you to pretend to yourself that you are not going to do the task

A phrase such as ‘I’m not really going to write that report now, but I’ll just get the file out’ will cause the reactive brain to switch the resistance off.

this is how we generally judge the difficulty of a proposed action – by how much we are resisting it rather than by how much skill or technical expertise it will take.

Have a clear vision

One thing at a time

Little and often

Limits

Closed lists

Reduce randomness

Commitment v. interest

What do we need?

The question we should always be asking ourselves is, ‘What am I/are we actually trying to achieve?’