2-Millimeter Shift

2-Millimeter Shift

Have you ever attempted to make a drastic change in your life and failed? Maybe you have that friend who goes on an extreme diet to lose weight and fails miserably everytime.

People often think they need to make a massive change to get the results they desire. While that may be true in a few instances. This limiting belief will hinder the change and results they want most.

Often, radical change is unstainable and not the best strategy for creating change in your life.

Take, for instance, working out to lose those extra 15 pounds. You go from couch potato to gym rat in a week to accomplish this goal. You start going to the gym 5 days a week and jumping on the treadmill for one hour each time. You might be able to sustain this massive change in behavior for a week or two before your legs give out and you crash and burn. On top of that, your responsibilities to family and work make it challenging to consistently dedicate time to work out. With this type of sudden massive change, how long do you think it will take before you start skipping workouts and eventually stop going to the gym? Then what happens? You lose confidence in your ability to lose weight. And the next time you have a desire to lose weight, your previous negative experience will hinder you. This pattern eventually turns into a downward spiral. Which ultimately results in a state of learned helplessness. When you get to the point of why try. Nothing works.

However, if you take a 2-millimeter approach to change, the change is much more sustainable. By 2-millimeters, I'm referring to an incremental change consistently executed over time that results in massive transformation. That means a small shift resulting in a significant change. You might initially feel that such a small gradual change won't make a difference, but a professional golfer knows that shifting the face of his club by 2-millimeters can completely change the trajectory of his shot. A plastic surgeon comprehends that they can change a patient's complexion by making a 2-millimeter shift to a key facial feature. A pilot understands that the slightest variation in the direction of their aircraft can completely change their destination.

A 2-millimeter approach to losing weight might look something like this. You increase the steps you take daily by 250 each week until you reach 10,000 steps daily. So if you are averaging 2500 steps a day. You would
increase that to 2750 steps daily on week one. On week two, you would increase that 3000 steps daily and so forth until you reach 10,000 steps a day. Within a few months, you will be burning hundreds more calories daily than before and walking close to 4 miles a day. If you do nothing else and continue to consume the same amount of calories you are currently eating, you will begin to lose some weight and inches. Within 5 to 6 months, you will start to see some significant changes. All this by making a 2-millimeter shift in the number of steps you walk daily. Imagine stacking another 2-millimeter shift in the area of eating. The results begin to compound exponentially.

So the next time you need to make a change, try the 2-millimeter approach. It won't get you there in a day, but it will get you there sooner than you think.

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