I had an update on my phone the other day.
Just one of those standard ones it asks you to install every few months.
The only thing I’ve noticed is a slight change to the keyboard.
A few keys have moved and some are a little bigger or smaller.
The upshot of that is I keep catching the ‘home’ button instead of the space bar.
Meaning when I’m typing a message, I keep closing the messaging app and having to re-open it.
Every message is taking three times longer to write than it should.
I’ve nearly got used to it now.
A few more days and, hopefully, I’ll be back to messaging at the same speed as before.
Because, of course, typing on this new keyboard isn’t actually harder than the old one.
Like using a new phone isn’t any harder than your old one.
But it takes some getting used to, doesn’t it?
The changing of the habit is the hard bit.
Not the thing that is new habit.
And it’s the same with a lot of the changes we might make to lose weight, get fitter and healthier and so on.
Eating a smaller portion takes no more effort.
Buying some different foods when in the supermarket takes no more effort.
Planning ahead and having a few key meals prepped or organised can take no more effort that spending multiple lots of 10 minutes getting something at that meal time.
It’s the doing things differently to what you’ve done for years or decades that makes it difficult.
But when we realise that, that’s empowering.
If I thought I was going to keep closing the app every time I wrote a message forever, I’d probably see if I could uninstall that update or change phones.
But I know it’ll get easier.
If eating better was going to be harder forever, I can see why someone wouldn’t do it.
But it won’t be.
It’ll get easier.
It’s the forming a habit that takes the real effort.
And, there is, of course, only one way to form a new habit.
Just keep doing it, even when it’s a bit annoying, until it becomes that habit.
Much love,
Jon ‘Closure’ Hall and Matt ‘Brothers’ Nicholson
P.S. Just 12 days now to our next find out more meeting, but why wait to book in if you’re wanting to start making some changes –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting
