Eric Zimmer

Less about why, because I don't know always why, but more about how do we solve it.

And I think there are two things we have to figure out when it comes to making a behavioral change.

And the first I call structural.

This is like knowing why you want to do something, knowing exactly what you're going to do, how you're going to do it, being very specific about it, making sure you have the tools to do it, making sure you have people to support you in doing it, setting up your environment to make it easier to do it.

It's all structural.

And that often solves a lot of problems.

It's stupid things.

Like if I look at my task list, the things that sit on there for a while are the things that are not one task.

They're actually like five tasks that I've called one thing.

Exactly.

It's ridiculous that I should need to deconstruct getting taxes done into the first step, which is go gather up all the mail that's in the eight different places in my house.

But it does matter when I do that, when I get that specific, I do it.

So the structural carries us a long way.

And then there is what I would call the inner, meaning I know exactly what to do.

I know how to do it.

It's all clear.

The moment is here.

I call it a choice point.

I'm at that moment.

and I don't do it.