Yesterday I was lying in bed and realised I hadn’t done a blog post for the day. I lay there for a minute, tossing up whether I should jump out of bed and quickly write something up. I was exhausted and obviously that is a bad idea. I’ve got another busy day today and my first instinct was to just leave the post for the evening. This is a recipe for disaster and I remembered a rule from Matt D’Avella called the two day rule. This rule simply states that if we want to make something a habit, don’t miss two days in a row.
We all lapse sometimes and get busy and any habit realistically isn’t going to be done every day without fail. Often the sense of failure when we miss a day of something can lead to another missed day, and another, until we stop all together. This is why the two day rule is so useful, it’s a subconscious get out of jail free card when we lapse, preventing a complete meltdown.
This seems so simple, and it is, but often it’s these small shifts in mindset which have an outsized impact of our productivity and lives. I’m back on the horse, posting another blog and hopefully continue to do so!
Harrison Hansford 