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It was my youngest son Charlie’s birthday a couple of months ago.
One of his presents was a dinosaur egg.
Not a real one.
Obvs!
A toy one that we finally got round to looking at the other day.
As instructed, we placed it in a bowl of water.
And, within a few hours, we started to notice little cracks on the egg.
A few more hours and a little Dino nose was poking out through a small hole.
Within a day, the entire dinosaur had cracked open the egg and ‘escaped’.
The dinosaur, of course, was made of a material that absorbed the water.
Growing in size and slowly pushing it’s way through the shell.
That change in environment and conditions causing a change in result.
As it often does.
No one berated the dinosaur.
Instructing it to “try harder” to grow.
As that wouldn’t work.
As it rarely does for us.
The answer usually lies with the same amount of effort on a more favourable approach.
Moving the fulcrum on the lever.
Releasing the brakes rather than just reving harder.
Changing the environment and conditions.
Not having so much ‘easy to overdo’ food in, rather than trying to use ‘willpower’ to ignore it.
Finding and approach to exercise you enjoy (or, at least, find tolerable) and a place to do it you enjoy going to (cough ** RISE ** cough –>Â myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting).
Where there are like minded people on the same journey.
Rather than just rejoining the gym you hated going to before.
Ordering food online rather than walking down those tempting aisles in the supermarket.
You get the point.
If berating yourself (or the dinosaur) was going to work, it probably would’ve done by now.
Do the equivalent of placing to yourself in a bowl of water.
Shape your environment to one where the desired behaviours are as easy as possible.
And the things that’ll take you in the wrong direction are harder to do.
Much love,
Jon Hall’opus’ and Mat’heronodon’ Nicholson
