Wolfe Movement

“Motivation is overvalued. Environment often matters more.” - James Clear
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📖 In the excellent book Atomic Habits, outlines three strategies for designing one’s environment in order to maximize good habits:
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🟣Automate good decisions
- Ex: drag your couch off to the side and leave a yoga mat in front of your TV.
🟡Make good habits get “in the flow” of normal habits
- Ex: keep that book you want to finish in the bathroom.
🟢Subtract negative influences
- Ex: don’t keep junk food in the house
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🏠 If we value something or want to build a good habit, our environment should support that. Most of the healthy decisions I make on a day-to-day basis are more a product of my home setup than conscious thought. My exercise mat is a permanent feature of my apartment, just like my guitar stays on its stand rather than away in a case. Having these things visible and accessible at all times has gotten me stretching, sitting on the floor, and practicing music out of sheer convenience, countless times.
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🧠 Having to constantly make decisions towards good habits can be exhausting. For example, I know if I have cookies in my pantry, I regularly have to expend mental effort just to NOT eat one. We I have enough things to worry about - let our environment make some of these decisions for us and good choices become a lot more natural!