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About three weeks ago I started doing 10 squats every hour on the hour.

Not because I suddenly became a fitness person. (I have not suddenly become a fitness person.)

But because I read something about how sitting for long stretches is quietly terrible for you and I thought, "okay. Ten squats. I can do ten squats."

That's approximately 40 seconds of my life per hour. Even I can manage that.

So I set a timer.

And then I ignored the timer for about four days straight.

Not on purpose. Just life. A podcast I didn't want to pause. The particular kind of inertia that happens when you're deep in something and your body has forgotten it exists.

But when you have a timer you've committed to.

It keeps going off.

So I'd hear it, think "oh right, squats" and do them. Sometimes at the top of the hour. Sometimes twenty minutes late. Sometimes I'd do them twice in a row because I'd missed the last one and felt a little guilty about it.

(This is not the recommended approach. But it's the honest one.)

And then something strange happened.

I'm not sure exactly when. But somewhere around week two I stopped needing to negotiate with myself about it. The timer went off and I just... stood up. I didn't suddenly developed some new iron discipline. My body had just started to expect it.

The habit had formed. (and my glutes are feeling it!)

This wasn't through willpower. Or even a really motivating podcast episode about becoming your best self.

Through repetition that was so small it barely counted.

Ten squats. Every hour. Until my body decided this was just a thing we do now.

The thing you're trying to build, in your business or in your life, probably doesn't need more motivation. It needs a smaller increment.

Not a two-hour content creation block. Twenty minutes of writing, same time every day, until your brain decides this is just a thing you do now.

Not a complete website overhaul. One page. Done well. Then the next.

Not a total mindset transformation. One thought, examined honestly, until examining your thoughts stops feeling like a big deal.

Real change doesn't arrive suddenly.

It accumulates quietly until one day you look up and realize you're someone who does the thing.

Ten squats at a time.

AND....

In between all those squats, I've been working on something else.

I've been completely revamping a group experience for you. Intuitive U.

I'll be sending more details on that soon. But in the mean time, here's a sneak peek at one of the things I'm adding to this experience.

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Tara "standing up as we speak" Schafer

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