fast, do it slow, do it differently. But keep repeating the action.
And finally, being mindful and noticing when it goes well.
When it does, celebrate success. You don’t have to go buy the
bottle of Möet, although you can if you wish. A small fist pump
will do just fine.PLEASE GIVE ME SOME GOOD ADVICE
IN YOUR NEXT LETTER. I PROMISE
NOT TO FOLLOW IT.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Plan How to Get Back on Track
When you stumble—and everyone stumbles—it’s easy to give up.
“I may as well eat the rest of the cake, seeing as I’ve now had a
slice.” In his book Making Habits, Breaking Habits , Jeremy Dean
helps us face the reality that we will not achieve perfection in our
quest to build the habit. We will miss a moment, miss a day. That’s
a given. What you need to know is what to do when that happens.
Resilient systems build in fail-safes so that when something breaks
down, the next step to recover is obvious. Make your habit a
resilient system.