Eric Zimmer

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.

And one of them is that when we do what we say we're going to do, essentially, if we make and keep promises to ourselves, there is a satisfaction in that.

There's an internal alignment that we feel when we do that.

And so if we can tune into that,

There is emotional payoff every time there.

And we can also tune into when we don't do what we say we're going to.

We know how that feels.

It doesn't feel good.