When recovering from injury, getting fit or staying healthy we often know WHAT to do but struggle to put that knowledge into practice.
Here’s a tool to help that is as simple as it is brilliant:
1. Decide what action needs to be taken.
2. Set a 3 minute timer.
3. Start the timer and begin stretching / doing press ups / meal prepping, whatever it is that needs to be done to achieve your goal.
4. When the timer is up, stop if you want to but chances are, now that you have begun, it will be easy to keep going.
I use this tactic at home when the kids have turned the place upside down and we need a tidy up. It’s amazing how much more orderly the place is after just three minutes and invariably we keep going for another three or four minutes until full order (more or less) is restored.
For some tasks you might need a longer or shorter timer but the principle remains the same. Give it a try and let me know how you get on.