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Micro-Momentum
Monumental change often hides inside ordinary, repeatable behaviors. Make the first step embarrassingly small, and resistance never shows up to argue.
Seth Thomas
June 01, 2025
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. — James Clear
Good Morning. Big ambitions stall when the leap feels too high; tiny actions keep going because they don’t trigger fear. One paragraph in a journal becomes a habit that produces books. The secret isn’t intensity; it’s continuity.
Small, repeatable wins also compress the feedback cycle. Each completion lights up the brain’s reward network, teaching you to associate the task with satisfaction instead of strain. That chemistry makes tomorrow’s repetition easier.
Finally, compounded micro‑wins turn identities. A “person who walks five minutes” morphs, almost imperceptibly, into “someone who never skips exercise.” Identities built this way are hard to shake—exactly what you want when goals get tough.
Today’s Challenge
Shrink a stalled habit to a 2‑minute version and do it before bedtime—then mark the calendar with a bold ✔︎.
🧠 Fascinating Stimuli:
Book of the Week
 | Lynne Twist’s The Soul of Money flipped my lens on finance from “never enough” to “already sufficient.” Drawing on decades of global fundraising—from Mother Teresa’s orphanages to Amazonian tribes—Twist shows how the stories we tell about money shape our sense of possibility. Her core argument is that scarcity is a cultural myth; when we practice “sufficiency,” we unlock the energy and ingenuity we thought we lacked. |
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