Eric Zimmer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I don't think there's a one size fits all prescription for anybody on anything.
You know, this book is for people who have found themselves struggling to make changes.
If you can set a big, hairy, audacious goal and you can change your life overnight and you can just keep doing it, I would set this book down and I would keep going.
But for the rest of us,
This is an approach that works, but I agree with you because you're right.
We do things emotionally.
And one of the problems of little by little is you get into this long middle where not much is happening.
So I think there's a few different ways to work on that.
Even if you have a big goal, it always makes sense to deconstruct it into smaller goals along the way, because then you are getting emotional payoff, right?
I had to write a book or I got to write a book.
I got to write a book.
It's a big undertaking.
And so what I divided the book up into to begin with was simply writing sessions.
And if I did the writing session, I tried to celebrate that.
And then I got to divide it into chapters.
Like, oh, look, the intro's done.
Oh, look, the first chapter is done.
Even though the end goal is certainly a whole book.
but there's emotional payoff along the way.
There's a couple other things too that we can tune into.