Pushing for “always” to achieve “usually”

About a year ago, I mentioned a friend that was able to work out 3x weekly, which is something I struggle with. If I aim to work out three times in a week, it quickly slips to maybe once or twice. Instead, I plan to work out every day, and that filters down to “most days”, which is really what I’m after.

I’ve found that taking this approach is helpful in other areas as well.

“Weekly” calls

I have a good friend that I met during my time in the altMBA, and we like to chat frequently to help push one another forward. For a while, we tried to meet “fairly often”, but it would slip to months between calls. We changed it to a weekly call every Monday, and that’s worked perfectly.

It’s not that we talk every week. In fact, we rarely ever get two in a row. Instead, it becomes a couple times a month, which is perfect! By aiming for a weekly call, with the caveat that either of us can cancel if a client or other priority comes up, it’s led to a very solid cadence for us.

Blogging?

In theory, this is my plan with blogging too. My thought was to aim for “every day” and be happy with “a few times a week”, but I’ve generally been able to keep the pace of daily blogging going for almost two years straight (minus a brief break for COVID). I think…