Every Day.

Every day.

It’s easier to do something seven days a week than four. Imagine if brushing our teeth was a four days a week habit: do you think you’d regularly miss a day, and find yourself in an endless battle to show up a the toothbrush sometime on four days a week? Which days? Morning or evening? Make a calendar reminder, or post-it notes on a mirror to remind you.

I’m a great believer in the power of ten minutes, or five minutes, every day. Best paired with linking the activity to something else going on to make it automatic. This was the great success of toothpaste distribution.

I had my own experience of this, fed up of the stiffness of hamstrings after a day’s sitting. I started to sling my leg up onto the (closed) toilet seat while brushing my teeth. Years later, having fallen off that particular hamstring wagon, I’ll still start to brush my teeth and on many days have the twitch to sling my leg up onto the toilet seat. So cool, how our bodies work.

And, when I started to play the saxophone again one evening in 2015, I had quite the extraordinary experience of going from literally not really remembering a note to playing along with my teacher to a piece by the end of the class.

Every day is the easiest way to make something a part of your life.

If you paint for just two minutes a day, you’re a paint. Or practice typing for 5 minutes a day, you’re a much better typist come the end of the month.

Even if it’s a two minute thing, it much more quickly becomes something that’s automatic and part of who you are.

Attack it every day, and bring a new aspect of life into you forever.