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I’m writing this blog on Tuesday 6th April 2021.

It will be published on Thursday 16th.

I always get the following week’s blogs written by the previous Tuesday.

For a few reasons.

I’ve published a blog at 11am every day since late 2012.

Just week days for most of that time.

7 days a week for the last few months.

This is blog 2,217.

That wouldn’t have happened if I tried to write each one each day.

And opened up the email software and composed and tweaked it for each of the different lists that gets it.

And the same on all the different bits of social media it goes on.

I know for sure that I’d miss some here and there and it’d soon fall apart and become a very occasional thing.

It happens because I’ve made the process as easy as I can.

Ideas go into a tab called ‘Blogs – idea’ on Google Keep (usually on my phone) as I think of them.

A quick flick down this tab shows probably a couple of hundred ideas I haven’t done anything with yet (and maybe never will).

I then flesh them out in a few different windows of time throughout the week and put them into ‘Blogs – in progress’ (8 including this one) or ‘Blogs – completed’ (currently 5).

Once a week (usually on a Monday, but last week was Bank Holiday Monday) I go through them and via some combination of writing the entire thing then and there (this one), finishing up some and / or just editing others, I end up with 7 of them in ‘Blogs – ready to go’ (currently the 3 you’ll have already had this week on Monday to Wednesday).

And then record the audio for the podcast version (www.myrise.co.uk/podcast) – reading it out loud also helps me proof read and edit it effectively (ish).

I do it by Tuesday as Clare (not Claire) does the processing, uploading, scheduling, etc on a Wednesday ready for the following week.

You may not be interested in this.

You may be tempted to scroll down and unsubscribe as it’s a bit boring.

But, as always, there are parallels there for you.

Firstly we’ll always benefit from making things as easy as possible.

Often by a bit of planning ahead.

To make it less work.

At a time when it’s easier.

If we wait till Hungry O Clock then the easiest option probably won’t be great.

The staff canteen, the coffee shop, the garage forecourt.

Or we can spend 10 or 30 minutes on a Sunday night (other convenient times are available) getting things in place.

Batch cooking some meals perhaps.

Maybe an online food order that takes into account the plans for the coming week.

Perhaps just a bit of thought as to when it makes most sense to sort each meal if it’s not at that meal time.

That bit of time can be an investment, not a cost.

Saving 10 or 15 minutes each day for a total gain of both time and from the ‘better’ choices it brings about.

Secondly, it doesn’t always make the most sense for us to do everything.

I could do all the processing of the blogs and various other things I don’t do.

But that would mean less time doing the things that only I can do.

Writing the actual content.

The videos.

The coaching conversations with members – in person and online.

Developing and implementing systems.

And so on.

You might have the equivalent.

Does it make sense for you to do all the bits yourself?

If you’re not already a member and you’re essentially designing your own workouts, might it make sense to come somewhere where you just need to turn up?

Ready made meals that are good enough and get eaten are always going to be more effective than theoretically ‘better’ choices that take too much time and effort and are replaced by a take out on the way home.

And so on.

Ultimately, if it’s not happening, what’s an easier way?

What’s the easiest possible way you could do the thing that, perhaps, isn’t getting done?

At least not regularly and consistently enough.

Much love,

Jon ‘Full of grace’ Hall

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.