Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

by B.J. Fogg

Ask the Breakthrough Question:How can I make push-ups easier to do? Knowing that physical effort is the weakest link, ask yourself which of the ways to make a behavior easier to do will work for you. For the design phase, we turn to the three parts of the PAC model. Will improving my push-up skills make it easier to do? Not the full solution, but probably a good idea if you have the motivation. Will getting the right tools or resources help me to make it easier? Not really. There are videos that can guide you in the right way to do push-ups, but they don’t make this exercise any easier. And a trainer can’t actually do the push-ups for you. Can I make twenty push-ups tinier so the new habit is easier to do? Yes. Doing twenty push-ups requires a lot of physical effort so the best option is to make this habit tinier. There are a few ways to do this. Cutting it down to one push-up, doing a few push-ups on your knees, or doing push-ups against a wall.