Architect your life

I just polished off an extra piece of cake after a birthday party. The cake was just sitting in my fridge asking to be eaten. Who am I to say no to a little bit of delicious cake?

We all know eating a ton of cake isn’t the best idea, and sometimes the easiest way to reduce our vices is to make them less easily accessible. I’m less likely to eat the rest of the cake if I’ve already placed the remaining leftovers in the trash. It’s certainly less likely that I would start to bake another cake just to have one more slice. So we can make the things we know aren’t great for us harder to do (or consume) as a good first step, but what about the good stuff that’s healthy?

Want to eat more fruit? Make sure you cut it up before it goes bad so that it’s ready to eat when you pass through the kitchen. Beyond food though how can you think about making healthy behaviors such as movement and exercise easier with fewer barriers? Want to fit in that morning run? Put your clothes out the night before (or take it another step further - you can wear them to bed if you can sleep comfortably in them). It’s harder to say no to that run when you’re already dressed for it.

Want to improve your pullups? Get a pullup bar to place in a doorframe you pass through frequently throughout the day. You’re going to do a lot more pullups (or at least you’ll have a nice spot to hang out).

You get the idea - we can increase barriers to unhealthy activities so they become more burdensome, while at the same time reducing barriers to positive and healthy activities and habits so you’re more likely to do those.

You get to choose how to design your life, so take a moment to think about one goal you have and consider what changes you can make to your environment to make you exponentially more likely to achieve it.

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