Consider the 80/20 principle.

20% of things leading to or being responsible for 80% of results.

We see this every day on the football pitch.

20% of the players scoring 80% of the goals.

Even as simple as people wearing 20% of their wardrobe 80% of the time.

Or even 20% of a rug being walked on 80% of the time.

These are all natural patterns we humans gravitate to without thinking.

This is somewhat feeds into the Path of Least Resistance.

How we as humans often don't do something until we really have to or pick the easy option because it's more convenient.

And yes that's perfectly fine in the name of efficiency and optimization, but it can be disastrous in our modern cycles of self-sabotage and self-loathing.

This is why it's so important to build habit stacks that overpower or short-circuit our likelihood to push things off or “save it for tomorrow”.

Do 3 10-minute tasks in one go is a lot more likely to happen than 3 separate 10-minute tasks.

This is because your saving time on the effort of making a conscious decision to start.

There's no warm up and cool down time. It's just go, go, go.

I've seen this phenomenon in extremely busy CEOs and entrepreneurs who wear the same cloths every day simply to save time on the mental decision-making of what to wear every morning.

Should you do that? Probably not but it signifies the point here.

We want to value stack our tasks and get them done in one go.

This is the great thing about a morning routine. Before the day starts and you go off airplane mode, you can get a large chunk of things done in one go.

And it doesn't have to be some big 2 hour routine, but 30-60 minutes of a few solid things you don't want to miss out on each day that will compound week by week and month by month.

This adds up to huge gains over the years.

And you need to save all your mental energy for things that actually matter.

We've covered this before but you need to start by tossing out all your bad habits AND replacing them with better habits.

That's how you transform your life.

ACTION

CHANGE

Use the power of compounding habits to transform your life. Recognize poor habits you might have had or still have. Toss out what is not needed and double down on what is important back to back.

Action Items

Tell me 3 things you are going to drop from your life because they are limiting your health, performance, and/or enjoyment on the pitch.

Then tell me what 3 habits you are going to or have already replaced them with.

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