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Thinking in terms of continuums, not pendulums

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One of the most important mindsets you can have when changing your behaviour is understanding that actions happen on continuums, not all-or-nothing extremes.

This is what I call continuums, not pendulums.

Pendulum Thinking

• All-or-nothing
• On or off
• Right or wrong
• Succeed or fail
• Intensity wins
• Restrictive

Continuum Thinking

• A little bit better
• A little bit more
• Shrink or scale
• Reflecting and developing
• Consistency wins
• Expansive

With pendulum thinking, we swing between extremes of either being on the diet or off the diet. Failing or succeeding. We yo-yo back and forth until momentum fizzles out and we get defeated.

“Nothing works,” we say to ourselves in frustration.