Two powerful motivators of behavior are loss aversion and consistency.
Loss aversion means we hate losing more than gaining. Loss leads to suffering. Suffering is bad.
Once upon a time, my room was a mess.
Once upon a time, I took only steaming hot showers.
Once upon a time, I didn’t meditate.
If you go into a woodworker’s woodshop and look around, what will you see? Organized environment with a dozens of different tools ready at hand. Now, is that what you see when you open your computer in your office?
1.01 ^ 365 = 37.783434333
This piece of math convinced me to exercise daily. Why? Let’s take it apart.
1.01 = 1 % improvement365 = number of days in a year