Jerry says the way he became a better comic was to write everyday. We probably all know this and have heard it before, but the way to getting fitter and achieving that flat stomach is to work on it every single day. Small actions every day add up to big actions over the future weeks, months and years.

Seinfeld speaks about his calendar system that puts visual pressure on him to write something everyday. It works like this:

• Get a big wall calendar that either has a whole month or whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent space that you will walk past/look at often.
• Get a big permanent marker and for every day that you complete something towards your goal (in Jerry’s case writing every day) you mark a big red cross over that day.
• After a few days you will start to see the crosses making a chain, like this
  XXXXXX.
• You want to keep growing that chain, longer and longer. Keep seeing that chain grow and it will start to look pretty impressive after a few weeks and then your goal becomes not to break the chain.
• Keep repeating to yourself or write it on the calendar, “Don’t break the chain”.

A challenge I have set for myself is to use this motivational technique combined with my 30 Abs Exercises in 30 Days series of articles. I want to be able to build a 30 day chain of abdominal workouts. I’m hoping that once the 30 days are up I will have formed enough of a habit to continue on and keep doing my abs exercises every single day of the year.

Hopefully some of my readers and fellow bloggers are keen to take on the 30 Abs Exercises challenge as well. If you are, let me know and keep in touch with your progress.

If you are looking for an easy way to make yourself a calendar check out this: http://www.eprintable.com/calendar.php

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