Success is created by having good systems.

Good systems are designed to properly account for FRICTION.

There are cases where you WANT friction in your systems that create resistance to making poor decisions.

So for example, if you're trying to lose weight, don't keep any junkfood in the house.

This creates friction when you might want to act on a craving to break your diet - you'll have to leave your house and go out somewhere rather than grab some donuts from your pantry.

Creating friction is usually pretty simple - just add obstacles in the way of bad behavior.

However, REDUCING friction can be much trickier, and ultimately much more powerful because it can help you TAKE good actions rather than just avoid bad ones.

Here are three simple methods for reducing friction:

1. Preparation

Make it easier to start up the task. Ex:

Lay out your gym clothes the night before

Pre-plan out a task in granular fashion before you do it

Keep the book you want to read out on your bedstand

2. Exclusivity

Remove optionality so that you reduce analysis paralysis. Ex:

Dedicate the first chunk of your day to ONLY one kind of task (like writing, or working out, etc.)

Have a notebook dedicated to a specific kind of journaling and nothing else

Only make one big change in your life at a time

3. Aesthetic Attunement

Enhance emotional attraction to the things you are trying to do:

Use tools you LIKE and are excited to use (even if they are a bit more expensive)

Create a more comfortable environment that you enjoy working in (cleaning, decoration, furniture quality etc.)

Find the way of "skinning the cat" that most appeals to your personality type (e.g. I'd take my intentionally designed minimalist home-gym over most commercial gyms ANY day).

Hope this is enough to get you started thinking.

UYAP! (Unleash Your Apex Potential)

Mark Queppet

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