A couple years ago I launched the Everest goal-setting app and many people from this community liked it, so I’m back to share something new (full-disclosure: I am sharing a product but also have a useful hack you can use regardless):
One day, I realized that
despite having 3 reminders set on my phone to “do pushups & take vitamins,”
I STILL WASN’T DOING IT. Having studied behavior change for years and having
co-founded a company whose sole purpose was to help people stick to their
goals, I found this lack of consistency in my own life frustrating.
Practically speaking, I
was well aware that to turn a goal into action, three things need to come
together: First, you must have the ability to do the task, second,
the motivation or desire to do it in the first place, and third, a trigger that
sparks you to do it (if you’re not already familiar with this framework, you should checkout the work of BJ Fogg, a behavioral
researcher at Stanford).
