If you tell ten people with critical health conditions that they need to change something about their life in order to survive… two people will do it.

When I first read about that study, I was dumbfounded.

While we all have issues understanding an idea, making a habit stick or doing something to think differently, the motivation of survival should surely be enough motivation. As it turns out, it’s not.

Our brains are wired in a way that it can take multiple attempts, viewpoints and approaches before something works. The synapses require multiple connections that are strengthened by continuous repetition.

If you keep at it enough, it will click at some point.

But it requires dedication, patience and a willingness to make it happen.

And the combination of those three are hard to come by.