Have you ever had anyone who didn’t return you calls?

 

Business or pleasure.

 

Annoying isn’t it?

 

But……….

 

Have you ever not returned someone else’s calls?

 

That pushy sales rep that keeps leaving messages?

 

That guy / girl you just weren’t that into.

 

Would you help a stranger if they asked for your help?

 

In studies, when people are told to go to another room and they need to rush, only 10% help a ‘planted’ stranger.

 

When they’re told “there’s no rush” over 60% stop and help.

 

Six times as many.

 

Ever got annoyed by that person zipping past queuing traffic, right up to the merge point while you, and everyone else, wait?

 

But done the same yourself when you really, really need to be somewhere very soon?

 

As a species we are affected by the situation more than we like to think.

 

We like to think that our choices are down to our character and the type of person we are.

 

And that’s part of it, sure.

 

But the environment is a huge, and often underestimated, factor.

 

Trying to use willpower to resist the biscuits, etc at work always has a much lower success rate than when there no biscuits at work there in the first place.

 

I’m under no illusion that if people were passing cake and biscuits round at RISE, we’d end up having some.

 

Trying not the have the crisps, wine, sweets, chocolate coated sugar bars in the cupboard at home has the same much lower success rate than when they’re just not there.

 

I’m no Scrooge.

 

My kids eat stuff like that (apart from the wine, of course) from time to time.

 

I just don’t have it in the house, tempting us all.

 

Don’t underestimate the impact of the environment on your decisions.

 

Don’t make the decisions harder to make than they have to be 🙂

 

 

Much love,

 

Jon ‘Call me’ Hall and Matt ‘Heart of Glass’ Nicholson

 

P.S. Too easy for bonus points them – Blondie songs!

 

P.P.S. Yesterday’s middle names were famous quotes from Guy Ritchie films Lock Stock and Snatch. The reason was the first one started with “It’s a deal, it’s a steal………”

 

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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.