To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is important to set goals that are challenging yet attainable, allowing for steady progress and a greater likelihood of success. This rule seeks to reaffirm your intentions by reminding yourself what they are and why you want to achieve them.

It requires a set of qualities that empower you to create the life you desire, free from compromising, procrastination, or any sort of unnecessary delays. By the time I finished it i'd written 10 pages of new habits and techniques to adopt and how to make sure they were permanently adoptable!He possesses a BS in psychology and a graduate degree, and has worked with dozens of people from all walks of life. I think for me the cherry on top was when Hollins is talking about this idea of “temptation bundling,” which essentially means “reward your present self while you do the hard thing that’s going to get your future self to the intended goal”, and he uses the example of eating Twinkies while working out. Setting bad goals refers to the tendency of individuals to establish objectives that are unrealistic or overly ambitious, often driven by emotions rather than a realistic assessment of their capabilities. background so that we don’t even realize that our discipline is lapsing until it’s too late and all of our past efforts have been wasted.

It just doesn’t occur to you, and you choose the path of least resistance despite your best intentions. In his excellent, practical and easily digestible book, Finish What You Start,Peter Hollins take us on a unique deep dive into the psychology and science of accomplishment, productivity, and getting things done. And much like how each smaller robot forms a different body part in the big robot, so too does each of these four elements—focus, self-discipline, action, and persistence—correspond to a body part that, when pieced with the others, forms the whole of following through.

When we lose steam, we aren’t tied closely enough to any of those aspects, which come together to create motivation. Following through is about having enough heart to keep pushing even in the face of obstacles, distractions, and setbacks. By having multiple people holding you accountable, you face the possibility of exponential shame—the shame and disappointment of multiple people building on top of each other is a horrible feeling that you will want to avoid.