Why a ‘Sliding Door’ Moment is the Perfect Time to Commit to Your Habit
How insignificant moments have the potential to be significant.
Life is a series of moments. An early morning wake up, a stroll in the local park or a cuddle from your dog. That’s all life really is. A series of those small moments bunched together, and we call it life. When we think of life though, we’re often focused on moments of grandeur. Moments of significance. The house purchase, the new car, the job promotion. Even though those moments make up less than 0.01% of our life, we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about them.
I write about decisions a lot, we make a whole load of decisions in a day, many of them automatic. Many of them we’ve done a zillion times before, we just get on with them regardless. We don’t think about them. It’s what Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls our system 1 thinking. It’s automatic and quick. It’s the drive (or walk from the bedroom to kitchen table) to work, it’s the morning coffee, it’s the switching on of Netflix at 6 pm every night. Many of us strive to curate our habits to align with our goals. If we could turn the morning coffee into a morning run and the Netflix at 6 pm to the side hustle at 6 pm we’d be able to change our lives.
