If you are going to make any change in your life – be it health, relationships, learning a language, learning a musical instrument – any practice habit that you can only sustain for a week will lead to no change in your life. Any practice habit that you can sustain for a 10 year period will transform your life.
The saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is true… but not over the period of 1 single day – it is true if you choose the apple over the donut every single day for a 10 year period.
Tiny habits that are almost too small to be significant, but are easy enough that you are likely to sustain them – will have a greater impact than a big habit that you are at risk of not sustaining.
It is not the one cigarette that will kill you… it is the one a day… or one an hour.
Short bursts of effort can sometimes provide immediate, though often superficial changes… it is the relentless, persistent, continuous action … maintained over the long term that leads to profound and lasting transformation in any area of life.