When you want to achieve a success the consistency is a clue. Unfortunately, people are inconsistent by design. That’s why we fail so very often in our struggle to have a new hobby for longer than just a couple of months, to change the way we’re working, to drop smoking, to improve fitness, etc.
We’re very often failures when there isn’t a clear goal on the finish. In cases where the process itself is the goal. Working differently on a daily basis. Going to the gym regularly. No smoking. Ever. Collecting coins like a year ago and two years ago. It’s never quick. It’s never easy.
If you want to improve your chances of success invite a habit. Make a “schedule” how often you do very basic things. Then force yourself to do just the next thing on schedule. Easier, right?
In Overto I’m responsible (among others) for tests. Tests cover (among others) subscriptions, which are generally a set of information about interesting auctions sent to your e-mail. Subscriptions are quite hard to test because it happens rarely that there’s no subscription e-mail at all. The challenge is to find situations when subscriptions are incomplete. As the mechanism is still in stabilization phase and we add new auction services tests need to be repeated again and again.
It was quite hard for me to proceed with those tests until I invited a habit. Every day in the morning, before first coffee, I check subscriptions I received last night. It takes me about a minute, but it’s a minute every single day. Now, I don’t treat it as a work actually. It’s a habit. It’s like drinking coffee every morning on the beginning of the work. It’s easy. It’s easy because it’s a habit.
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