Make the DOING Easy!

This is Matt from the Greatness Every Day podcast and I want to say “thanks” for listening to this episode and I hope that you’re having a great week. I’m feeling rested and rejuvenated for two reasons: 1) This weekend, we had our first sessions of the Greater Habits Coaching Program that I’m running and 2) I spent the past few days visiting friends and that time was really good.

Let’s jump into the topic for this episode and from the title “Make the DOING EASY” you probably can’t guess exactly what we’re talking about, but we’re going to talk about the physical environment and how important it is to creating and establishing habits in our lives. “THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT” isn’t something I’ve ever really thought about before until I took a course at university. One of my few non-science courses, but it blew my mind to start thinking and discussing how our environment affects our lives and it makes sense.

I’ve been in my apartment for four months now and I’ve had nothing for guests to sit on, other than a few uncomfortable kitchen chairs. I’ve had visitors, I’ve hosted a few people for up to a week and invited people over, but I just didn’t have the furniture for it to be comfortable. I could have easily gone out and bought some, but I’m pretty frugal when it comes to stuff (material items), but I’m not very frugal when it comes to other things. If I don’t need it, I’ll think long and hard about whether or not I should buy it. Let’s just say I’m not a huge fan of shopping, but after yesterday that might be changing…

I finally went and bought some furniture yesterday at IKEA and one of my favourite things I did was make a reading corner. This reading corner has one function - READING - and in my Greater Habits Coaching Program we are currently looking at which habits we have that we need to do more of. For me, reading is that habit without a doubt. I’ve made the goal of reading two books this week and that’s an insane goal because prior to last year, I didn’t even read two books in 12 years!

One of the things the book “Atomic Habits” by @james_clear discusses is that you should make it as easy as possible to do good habits and that’s what this corner does for me. (I'm also super into this book that I can't smile I guess, haha)

I’ve made reading a priority in my life because it lets me to connect to the great minds of our world. When I invest in myself, I’m not being frugal anymore - investing in your own growth is too important!

Call-to-action: Look at your room, house, work and think about what you can do to make it as easy as possible to create a new habit. If you have any questions about this, or anything else discussed in this episode, please contact me by email at [email protected].

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