Mike Carruthers:
You start a project with the best of intentions but you never
finish, everybody does it. Joel
Best:
In fact, we discovered that
the human mind has a whopping design flaw, so to speak, that
really accounts for why people don’t follow through.
Steve Levinson,
author of the book, Following
Through: A Revolutionary Model for Finishing Whatever You Start,
says there are some simple strategies
we can use to help us finish what we started. One is called
creating compelling reasons.
We talked
with a gentleman who had diabetes who didn’t take very good
care of himself, and he ended up in the hospital. And, after
he was hospitalized, he kind of turned over a new leaf and started
to follow through quite well on his diabetic care. What happened
was when he was in the hospital, he had to use the bedpan, and
it was so humiliating that he swore that he would never let
that happen again. So that kept him on the straight and narrow
whereas a concern about his health and well-being and longevity
that didn’t do it for him.
Another example is
the man who wanted to get up at 5:30 but never could drag himself
out of bed that early.
He
got a second alarm clock, set that one for 5:35 and put it in
his kids’ room. When the first alarm clock that was set for
5:30 in his own bedroom went off he would think if I don’t get
up and get out of bed and turn that alarm clock off in my kids
room, the kids are going to wake up and my wife is going to
absolutely kill me. And every morning he got out of bed, not
for the right reasons, but the reason that he created, a compelling
reason.
At
somethingyoushouldknow.net, I’m Mike Carruthers, and
that’s Something You Should Know. |
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