Author BJ Fogg mentions in Tiny Habits that as your desire to do something goes down, so must it’s degree of difficulty if there’s any chance for it to be done at all, let alone develop into a habit you do rather unconsciously. Conversely, something you really like doing, or are really motivated to do can now be coupled with a task that’s a bit on the difficult side. For example, it’s very tough to hit a big league fastball…near impossible. But, if your love of the game is high, along with lots of time to kill and maybe live close to a baseball field, these all work in your favor of sticking with the program, no matter how difficult the task. On the other hand, if you’re more of a hockey fan, work a 12 hour day, and live downtown, then developing your skills of hitting a baseball will be difficult.
All in all, once we have clairity of what it is we want, we then can find what we need to get it. Once this is figured out, the implementation is all in your hands.
“Do or do not, there is no try.” – Yoda