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This is post #22 in my blog challenge and here I am, still at it.

But I need to review how and when I write. This week there has been a lot of late nights and it doesn’t work for me to write late, I’m just too tired to write after 11 o’clock in the evening. My brain is pretty dull then, it is not at its creative peak, so to speak.

I often pick up an idea to write about during the day but late at night I have no inspiration or energy.

It’s time to adjust my blog routine and get better structure if I’ll be able to write every day.

I will set aside time to write every day and do it right away when I wake up. Wake up earlier than usual to write a few lines.

This is what I’ll do

1. Take notes during the day if I come up with something to write about

2. Try to have a topic before I go to bed

3. Go up a little earlier each day to write

4. Set aside a time to write. Turning off everything else that can distract and start writing and will not stop until I hit publish.

Hopefully this means that work and everyday stuff doesn’t postpone my writing.

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This post is about blogging and to publish often. I want, as I’ve mentioned before, get better at writing and expressing myself. Get into the habit of writing a few hundred words about the thoughts in my head, reflections and lessons learned.

I learn things every day, and I’ve learned a lot so far, and I’m learning more about myself if I write it down. Is it, in addition, someone who gets engaged and inspired which leads to a debate that gives me more approaches to what I write that’s even better.

It feels good to write, it’s like I’m creating stuff (which I do). I’m learning about how I think, I also write to share my thoughts. I think peoples thoughts are made to be shared.

That is how we learn from each other.

I also write to get my ideas out of my head and clear my mind.

There are different views on this. To publish often and most of what you write. Some think it disturbs and has no value to write often, too often. This is also why I don’t share this blog so much. Or talking about my blog challenge. What I write is not always of value. Above all, it is difficult to know in advance. That’s all right!

It is the same problem as with people you meet in real life, you don’t know if the person you opening the door for is valuable to you until you talk and interacting with the person. The same applies to blog posts.

Quality versus quantity

Without starting to talk too much about the value of a blog post, I think quantity is necessary to get quality. I believe it is required to get better and develop your writing, or whatever the craft is you want to handle like a champ.

This got me Googling on the subject and I ran across an interesting blog post on Medium, it’s written by Herbert Lui and called “Why Quantity Should be Your Priority“.

I agree with much of what Herbert writes. For me it’s pretty obvious that it is required quantity to get really good at something. Let’s say you want to master a particular craft: your coding skills, your golf shot or your writing skills, whatever. Which approach do you think will win: quality or quantity?

PS. This is post #16 in my blog challenge 100 posts. See you tomorrow!

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Nearly five years ago I quit my job. This was April 2009, I had spent two years at an ad agency (which I liked) when I quit to bet everything on a new business idea.

We had participated in an hackathon (called 24 Hour Business Camp) a few months earlier, got good response on our business idea, ended up at a leaderboard with the result that we won seats at the former office space and incubator MyQube. The thing was obvious! Now we would go for it!

My first failed startup

The business idea was that you could listen to a chapter of a book before buying it. Our challenge was to get us the users, but also the publishing companies who turned out to be terrified of the Internet at the time.

All in for a limited time

We decided that we, as a team of three, would give everything for 10 weeks. The business concept was fairly validated, had pre-booked a couple of interesting meetings and so on. Now it was time to finalize the alpha version and think through the business model.

We started at full speed and was very transparent. We had weekly progress meetings that anyone could follow live on the web. In a team of three we worked extremely iteratively. I managed the web development while my two colleagues worked with marketing, design and sales. There were long days, nights and weekends, all the time with progress meetings towards our goal we have 10 weeks away.

A few weeks into the project, things started to feel different. In the beginning we had good speed and was agreed on most things, but over time I noticed that we weren’t on the same path. We didn’t agree on priorities, wanted to go in different directions and so on. Six weeks into our project, I dropped out. We canceled the project. No bad feelings, we all agreed on the decision to close down, at least with the original team and strategy.

Although the project was canceled, it turned out to be extremely useful. I tried most things in a short time. We took quick decisions, evaluated, adjusted idea and product market fit, tried different types of business models etc. I learned a lot in very short time, to say the least. Probably more than I would have done if we hadn’t had limited the time period. It would probably been the same result, felt like a bigger failure, more like a sacrifice, if we hadn’t limited the time.

That’s why I like hackathons, you are forced to make quick decisions, make simplifications and become more creative. I’ve been surprised at how much I succeed in doing as short as 12-24 hours.

Lesson learned

This is really a lesson I’ve taken with me. Narrow your time, set goals and evaluate as time passes. Will there be a shambles of it all, as in this case, then you have at least spent less time and energy than you would if you didn’t set a time-limited goal.

I came across this video today, a really inspiring rendition of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech on his 6 rules to success. And speaking of trust your gut feeling (which I wrote about yesterday) Arnold’s first rule is: trust yourself.

Arnold’s 6 Rules of Success

1. Trust yourself.

2. Break some rules.

3. Don’t be afraid to fail.

4. Ignore the naysayers.

5. Work like hell.

6. Give something back.

Go ahead and create!

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During the Christmas holidays in December 2011 me and my friend Jonas Arnklint started to work with what today is RevRise. We are thus two founders, but these are my lessons.

During the fall 2011 we did some experiments and prototypes related to technology and evaluated two different business ideas. We talked to friends and potential customers about our ideas and somewhere in late December between Christmas and New Year we registered a new company, in order to feel more real but also as a commitment between both of us.

It has been an extremely rewarding time. It has taken a lot more mental energy of me than I ever thought, even though I had run my own company for two years at the time it is completely different to build a product compared with selling consulting services.

Lessons learned from being bootstrapped for two years

RevRise targeting business to business so it is possible that not all things fit if your startup targeting consumers.

Validate your idea as soon as possible

Talk to friends and potential customers about your idea. It can be sketches on paper, it doesn’t matter. Can they see the need, do you solve a problem they actually have? If not, think again and adjust. It’s crucial that you solve a problem and meets a need.

Dare to say no

Among the hardest thing to do during the first few months was to say no. Personally, I had built up a customer network for two years in my other company. To say no to the money and great deals was hard sometimes. At the same time it became the driving force, it was RevRise I wanted to bet on. I really wanted to build a company that solves a problem through great products.

Learn to focus and prioritize

When you have limited time and money, you are forced to prioritize. And as time goes, you learn to prioritize correctly. Focus is also something that is important and related to the point above, to saying no. Live on savings and find space to run full time, whether it is for a limited time makes you incredibly effective and creative. (That’s why I love hackathons, they force you to think differently and produce efficiently.)

Move forward through metrics

Validate your learnings by measuring traction in almost everything you do. In the beginning it may not be key values ​​close to your business, however, it is important to ensure that you moving forward. It may be the version number of your product, the number of commits etc. The most important thing is that you feel you have momentum in what you do, that you moving forward. Validate learning through metrics. It is called Validated Learning in the Lean Startup methodology.

Have a close dialogue with a few customers

Get a close contact with customers from start. Charge, overdeliver and treat your customers well. They are an extremely important source. Charge on day one, explain why you charge, then you will have a business relationship, there is a demand from both parties and you respect each other’s work. Very useful and instructive. Ask for feedback, have meetings about the progress.

Surround yourself with like-minded

Surround yourself with other entrepreneurs, perhaps foremost if you are a solo founder, it makes your everyday life more social and you get fresh eyes on your business which reduces the risk of wrong focus. Talk to other entrepreneurs, even to those who had failed.

Trust your gut feeling

Make your gut to your best friend, dare to trust your gut feeling and believe in your idea. At times, you will be alone in knowing what you want to do and what is best for you.

Make decisions quickly

Dare to take quick decisions. Decide and execute. Sometimes it’s more important that you take the decision quickly than that the decision is right (it’s so hard to know in advance anyway). At worst, you’ve made a mistake and learned from it. A good entrepreneur is, according to me, a person who is good at executing and do it quickly.

Limit your time, divide project into sprints

Divide your projects and tasks in weeks of sprints. Divide your day into blocks. Experiment with how much time you need for different blocks. Sales calls before noon, web development in the afternoon.

Divide the projects into 1-3 weeks of sprints. Follow up every sprint, do they match with your goals? Refine, adjust and iterate.

Mix long-term goals and short term goals

Have both long and short term goals. Use the short-term goals to see if you are going in the right direction toward your long-term (big) goal.

Summary

• Say no and find time to work on your idea. It is absolutely crucial.
• Validate your idea early, ask friends and potential customers if they would be willing to pay for your idea.
• Define key metrics, move your business forward with metrics.
• Read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
• Use The Business Model Canvas, start using it early and continue use it in your process now and then.
• Maintain close dialogue with your customer base early on. Charge from day one.
• And finally, be patient, everything takes much much longer than you think.

It’s fantastic to dare to invest in your dream. Everyone should try it at some point in life.

Okay, so I’m on my 12th post in my blog challenge. And it’s still pretty hard.

To press the publish button.

I don’t want to be stupid or boring. There always those concerns. And I don’t think I’m alone. There are certainly many people who don’t write because they are afraid to be stupid, boring, wrong etc.

But I’ve decided, I will write every day for 100 days to see how I change, if I become better at expressing myself, quicker to write and get it into a habit. Get rid of the fear.

Just do it. As it is called.

And 12 blog posts is not much, but it’s more than I usually do. It’s a win, I’ve made ​​progress and I’m happy with it.

I’ve also found more reasons why I want to blog, but I’ll keep them to myself for now.

By the way, here’s a tip related to writing. I downloaded a desktop app today that I earlier had bookmarked and picked up when I needed to focus and get some inspiration. It’s called Coffitivity and do one single thing — let you play background noise from a café, choose between morning- lunch or afternoon chatter. Convenient when you don’t want it completely silent but still need to focus and get some inspiration.

This blog post is dedicated to a person who gets far too little attention for its amazing efforts. Recently, it was written a letter explaining the three myths that block the progress of the poor.

The myths that block for the poor

1) Poor countries are doomed to stay poor

According to the letter, it’s a myth that the rich countries are getting richer and poor countries stay poor. The letter states:

A quick Web search will turn up dozens of headlines and book titles such as ‘How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor.’ Thankfully these books are not bestsellers, because the basic premise is false.

2) Foreign aid is a big waste

Many articles about foreign aid that are filled with big generalizations based on small examples. The letter states:

Some news articles tend to cite anecdotes about waste in some program and suggest that foreign aid is a waste. If you hear enough of these stories, it’s easy to get the impression that aid just doesn’t work.

3) Saving lives leads to overpopulation

The anxiety over the size of the world population has a high risk to override concern for the human beings who make up this population, according to the author.

Read the letter in its entirety →

The author

The author of the letter today works full time with a foundation that supports over 100 countries, has over 1,000 employees and has paid out over $28 billion in grants. He is a philanthropist who has never sacrificed his financial situation.

He says that the real philanthropists are those who move to Africa to help the people there, or who work nights and weekends as volunteers, or donate portions of their salary to charity. He himself has never sacrificed anything like that, according to himself.

He also started a campaign called The Giving Pledge, an organization that currently has over 113 billionaires who pledged to give away at least half their wealth to charity.

You probably guessed who the person is by now, it is the world’s richest man, Bill Gates.

Mr Gates

Thank you for your superb work to inspire so many people. Amazing that you give most of your fortune to philanthropic causes (and that you got many others to do the same).

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I’ve been running own companies in almost five years now, but have never really used the word entrepreneur to describe myself. Don’t think it suits me, or rather, it has felt so trite. At the same time I haven’t found any other good descriptive term that fit.

The other day I was told from where the word entrepreneur came from.

The word entrepreneur occurs in a French dictionary already in the 1400s and means “to undertake”.

A word I can really associate myself with and feels more urban and not so trite.

Wikipedia about entrepreneurship →

Happy friday!

“Meditate for 2 minutes every day” is one of the habits I wrote that I would start with two months ago. That didn’t happen. But I did it a long time and basically until a few days before Christmas. Then there was a lot of work, changed routines and suddenly I stopped completely.

Although it has been a month without meditation, I feel that it has affected me in some situations. Meditation has clearly been useful and influenced me a positively.

What meditation has given me so far

In particular, there are two things I see noticeably have changed and made ​​it easier for me and it is:

1. Has relieved stress and helped me relax.

2. Has made me more present in the things I do.

I also feel that it triggers thoughts and provide benefits that are difficult to define.

I’m curious to see what happens if I continue to meditate, so I will start to meditate daily again. For two minutes. That’s all. That should all of us have the time to.

And it’s one of the easiest habits to do. You can do it anywhere at any time. It is enough with a minute or two, if you are busy. There is no excuse not to do it.

You should try too, I recommend it. Two minutes peace and quiet need the most of us in these days.

With the help of Calm I meditate daily for two minutes.

I’ll go and do it now.

Oops, this became a very long post and a real trip down memory lane for me. If you want practical tips on speaking in public, you can scroll down to the last part of the text. Sorry, but like I said, I have promised myself to press publish.

I remember the time in middle school when I would give talks in front of the class. I was super nervous and scared. It certainly wasn’t something I wanted to do, I would rather sit at the back where no one noticed me. I was very shy as a kid so to stand in front of the class wasn’t exactly my greatest desire. It was never fun. But useful/instructively.

In college, just over 12-13 years later when I was studying to Information Engineer at the University of Kalmar, we practiced a lot on talks in front of a audience. We hade courses in presentation techniques and was taught how to give a presentation to an audience. But I had the same feeling then, it was never fun and I was really nervous before every presentation.

A few years later, just before I started my own business, I got the opportunity to hold a course (a small one) at the University of Kalmar. I jumped at the task at very short notice. The course I would teach in was called “Web Development with XML” and focused on the basics of XML and partly also HTML. I think I follow some of the students on Twitter nowadays (this was 2008, before Twitter was big in Sweden). Those who listened to me back then include @erikfalk, @jarnesjo, @erikssonandreas and @joacimstahl. Am I right?

I remember how I came to my old school and the town I lived in for three years. It was a very strange feeling to be back. And the day after, I was in the teachers room and talked to the teachers I had previously had been taught by. But this time it was my turn to teach.

Due to short notice, there was not much time to do my own stuff, I had to start from the previous lectures and try to make them mine. It was hard. But I solved it. I survived. No harm done.

Fast forward the time for another five years and we have arrived at today’s date.

Tomorrow is a big day. It’s the finishing in STING FastForward{.broken_link}, the coaching program I joined in the fall with my startup RevRise. STING FastForward is a program that gathers Stockholm’s most promising Internet startups in 4-month batches (we are in the first batch ever). In short, the Swedish version of Y Combinator (without funding).

Tomorrow all participating startups present what they had done during the 4 months the program been going.

And this time, I haven’t thought to make the same mistake again. This time I been practicing. My colleague and I have probably performed the presentation 25-30 times. At least 10 times on stage where we’ll be tomorrow. Even practicing with microphone. And I have finally understood what it is that works for me. To practice, not to write about what to say, just talk, rehearse what you will say. Go through your presentation a few times, ask for feedback from others and adjust. But then you stop, no more changes. Instead, keep practicing. Polish and practice, practice, practice. Repetition is the only one that provides results.

Maybe it helps that this is something close to my my heart. We’ve been working on a product for just over 2 years. In the fall, I’ve been questioned more than ever before in my career. And recently, we launched version 1.0 of our product.

So I’m quite keen to do well.

Plus I’m very very confident in what we have accomplished. I’ve experienced everything we talk about. It makes everything much easier. And now I realize how much fun it is if you’re prepared. If you can the stuff you talk about.

In the past, I have always been filled with anxiety the days before a presentation. That isn’t the case now. The only thing I know is that it’ll be really fun. A fun end to a very rewarding program.

Demo Day tomorrow will be awesome!

A few tricks about public speaking

• Be prepared
• Practice, practice, practice. Repeat (easier to find your way back if you get lost)
• Find the dynamics and timing
• If possible, practice on the location
• Go up on stage when there is no audience and “know the scene”

Two links worth reading

• Speaking.io (by Zach Holman)
• A few tricks about public speaking and stage technology

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They say that the first step is the hardest.

The first step is scary, you start with nothing, no history.

But the first step is crucial. You have big goals and dreams you want to achieve and accomplish. But you will not get there unless you take the first step. So you take it.

And now what? You have a bit of momentum, a bit history, but it’s not much. The first step was a relief but now you’re back with the same feeling, big goals and dreams you want accomplish. The feeling for the next step is the same as before the first step.

But you know you need to take it. And so you take it.

There’s a saying for this:

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

And in theory it’s true, there is always that “first step”. But in practice it’s all about taking that first step each time. Every day.

And I’ve promised myself I would do that now. I’ll write every day, because I want to write every day.

During my first year as a freelancer I began at square one. I worked a lot.

I had some money saved but the stress and anxiety of not knowing how I would bring money to next month’s bills took a lot of energy. It was a few months filled with uncertainty and many questions. Just the case that I was sitting at home on my 22 square meters throughout the day was weird. For that was what I did. It was not as widespread as today to work at cafes at the time. And I was quite alone among my friends to run my own company.

I said yes to any assignment that came my way. I put no value in thinking about the time frame, it didn’t matter if it would be ready within a day or two. It was a assignment, the only thing I saw was the dollar sign, money for next month’s expenses.

I worked a lot and had fun. Really fun. I never thought of searching for employment. It was just about trying to find a structure in the day and look for assignments. My idea was to see possibilities in everything and don’t focus too much on hourly rates. It was a successful concept.

See opportunities in everything and don’t focus too much on hourly rates. Focus on collecting experiences and references from customers.

Everything went pretty well, after a few months I got more and more assignments and money in the bank. I earned enough to pay my bills and live as my friends.

After about six months, it became even more work. I saw the 24 hours of the day that I atleast can work 10-14 hours of them and even much of the weekend. Now when I thinking back, I can’t think of a single day when I wasn’t working. I always worked a few hours each day throughout my first year as self employed.

Enough

I knew you could become totally leached from working too much. That, I had heard many times before and I’ve seen at close range what can happen to those who do. But I felt no signs of tiredness at all, it was just fun. Sure, sometimes when it became night shifts, and the only thing I did was to climb the ladder to my loft bed and down to my desk in my tiny little apartment, was not always enjoyable. But when the assignment was done and I saw the result, that feeling disappeared.

It went on, a long time. I worked a lot and rarely socialized with friends. Friends called and wanted to hang out and my answer was usually that I don’t have time. I had to work.

During my first two years of self-employment, I earned the most during my first year. My turnover was thus higher in year 1 than in year 2. But wasn’t something I aspired to. Never mind the turnover. Don’t think about it too much, let it never be your main goal. Never start a company where the main driving force is to make lots of money. You will never have the energy, this blog post is about why you will not cope. Running a business requires an extreme amount of energy and you really need to be passionate about your idea.

For the same reason, you should never be afraid to talk about your idea. Because it requires a lot for someone else to be able to drive an idea forward without being passionate about it. You have to sweat to make it happen.

Find your getaway

One way to manage to work a lot for a long time is to have a getaway. A breathing space. If you don’t, make sure to find it, in the long run you will need it.

This came up for me during Christmas 2010. During the holidays when I met my family and friends it came up to me. I was totally exhausted. My brain could not sort my thoughts. I slept a lot and felt bad without being able to sort why I felt bad. I had just had my first years of hard struggle and missing a getaway.

A getaway, a haven, is a place where you are allowed to breathe. A place where you feel comfortable and can relax. A place where work is prohibited. A time for reflection and relaxation. It can be a workout, you might singing in a choir, sewing, doing carpentry, does yoga, have a country house, a book club … whatever. In short, something you enjoy doing or a place where you can relax. Find a couple of times a week when you visit this place, a few occasions where you allow yourself to take a break from everything else and breathe.

A occasion when you do exactly what you want, except to work. It’s useful and healthy, you will need it, sooner or later, I promise.

PS. Don’t do like me, don’t rely on that you will know when you’ve had enough, because you will not know it until it’s too late. Make sure to have a breathing space freely from work already, at day one. Are you thinking of starting your own business? Do it! NOW! In four years, I haven’t regretted it once. It is amazing to jump into the unknown and dare to invest. Risk, invest, win! DS.

Thank you for reading!

I’m trying to create some new habits in my daily life and thought I should share them here. The purpose is to learn myself how I best create a new habit, how I start and how I get continuity in the new habit. I have started in a small way and a maximum of two new routines simultaneously.

My new routines

• Go to bed before 11 PM
• No social media before 8am or after 10 PM
• End of snoozing
• Write daily
• No second screen (phone/iPad) when watching TV
• Meditate for 2 minutes every day

Go to bed before 11 PM

Have been doing this for a while now. Excercise makes me go to bed at a sensible time.

No social media before 8 AM or after 10 PM

Before I used to always check social media before I got out of bed or went to sleep. Totally waste of time for me, especially in the mornings. The habit is easier to be without in the mornings than bedtime.__

End of snoozing

My newest routine. I want to start the day early and get out of bed the same time every weekday. Through the years I have tried different alarm clocks and placed them far from my bed and even in other rooms of the apartment, without much success. Now I have a trigger to stop snoozing. The first thing I do when I get out of bed is to drink a glass of water and meditate for 2 minutes.

Write daily

Also a new routine. I want to create daily writing as a habit. As I’ve written before, the secret for me is to start small. I write 30 words a day.

No second screen when watching TV

Previously my worst habit. I used to pull out my phone or iPad at every commercial break, or if I lost interest. Nowadays I leave the phone or iPad in a another room if I watch TV, or don’t watch TV at all.

Meditate for 2 minutes every day

As I mentioned, my new routine is to get out of bed earlier without snoozing. The added bonus of that is has created yet another new routine. To meditate each day. With the help of Calm I start the day with a meditation for two minutes.

It’s fun, refreshing and stimulating to create new habits. You should try it!

For exactly three years ago I was in the lovely city of Barcelona.

Jonas Arnklint and some of his friends rented an apartment there and I was there for a visit.

At this time me and Jonas didn’t know each other so well, we had met at a hackathon, 24 hour business camp, two years earlier and since then done some consulting work together.

Since we lived in different cities, we talked frequently by phone or Skype about our assignments and generally about business ideas and were both curious and eager to build a product.

The plan with Barcelona was to get inspired, try out and experiment with code and hopefully find an idea of a product worth to continue working with. I was there for a week and it was a pretty intense computer stay.

We sat in front of the computers during the days, enjoyed tapas and beers in the evenings and often returned to the screens white light at night.

Jonas is a full-stack developer with fondness to Node.js and Ruby and had done some experiments with Node.js (that was pretty new back then) and showed me early prototypes of mouse-tracking.

It instantly felt like something interesting, even if not completely new, there were services for mouse-tracking at the time, but the technology Jonas used was interesting. We started to discuss how to use this and the complexity of web form was just one of the many uses.

Now, three years later, we own two companies together and will soon launch version 1.0 of the seed that was created during that week in Barcelona.

It was, by the way, an truly amazing week in several ways that week in November 2010. I had just started dating the woman who I now live with AND also sold my apartment during a walk along the Barceloneta beach.

Thank you for reading.

When I thinking back on the most successful things I managed to carry out, all have one thing in common. They have started small.

Take baby steps.

It sounds easy and obvious. I’ve always had big goals and often fight with my own ambitions in everything I do and I don’t think I’m alone. Right?

It is not easy to divide a large goal into smaller chunks when the will is strong. But necessary when you want to create a new habit, for example. Or to be even more specific, an example where we all have been at some point, to create an exercise habit.

Who hasn’t had the thought “I need to stop being lazy and start working out”?

The most common mistake then is that you start too big. The challenge will be too big and your body can’t handle it, and faster than you want, you’re back into the old lazy habit again.

The reason that I mentioned exercise as a habit is because it’s a habit I have a managed to create.

I have exercised regularly for 4 years now. When I started work out, I had never run more than 10 kilometers, today I run almost never below 10 km when I running.

The last few months, I have thought pretty much about my living and my personal development and written down which habits I succeeded with and which ones failed. I found some common things in the successful habits and divided them into several steps. This resulted in a list that I now thought to share with you and was thinking of using next time I’ll create my new habit.

The secret list to create a new habit

It’s very simple and all you do is to define some questions and reward yourself. =)

1) Note down your goal

Example: Why do you want to start exercise? Choose a high goal that is divisible by 10.

2) Address your challenges

Irrational thought: “I’m a crappy runner”

Solution: I just haven’t been running enough yet.

3) Choose a time when you will do the habit and start small

Divide your goal with 10 and start there.

For instance…

Big goal: “I want to be able to run 10 km.”

Start small: “I will walk 1 km every Tuesday.”

4) Reward yourself

Example: My reward is to force myself to smile, raise my hand to the sky and scream “Yes!”

5) Improve and expand

Once you have the habit, then start walk for 1,5 km Tuedays and Thursdays.