How To Use Tiny Steps To Trick Yourself Into Making Progress
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like you’re always “starting again” with your weight loss?
Ever wait for the perfect time to do it properly… and end up doing nothing instead?
Ever feel stuck in all-or-nothing thinking where small efforts don’t seem to count?
In this episode, we break down how to beat perfectionism and self-sabotage using the next tiny step method, and why action, not motivation, is what creates clarity and momentum.
Think of this as momentum 101. Simple, practical steps you can apply today to stop starting over and start moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to the podcast. I always say this, but I'm so excited for this one because we're going to talk about one of my favorite topics, and that is how to use teeny tiny little steps to trick your brain into taking more action. |
| 0:14.5 | And action is a thing that gives us clarity of what we should be doing, how to iterate on the processes that will lead us to our |
| 0:24.4 | goals and ultimately how to achieve them. And where most people go wrong is they think about |
| 0:29.5 | staying stuck in a planning phase, needing to get things perfect, needing to understand everything |
| 0:36.3 | that would lead them to lose 40 pounds as opposed to |
| 0:39.8 | taking directional action that would then allow them to gain momentum towards actually doing |
| 0:46.0 | it, putting the food in their mouth, getting the steps in, going to the gym, doing what they |
| 0:50.8 | actually needed to do in order to see success. |
| 1:01.7 | So having this understanding of using a tiny step has allowed me to not only maintain the 40 pound loss that I had, but it also allows me to get more consistent in the gym. |
| 1:06.6 | It's allowed me to take action on moving countries. |
| 1:10.0 | I now live in the United States. It's allowed me to get action on moving countries. I now live in the United States. |
| 1:12.3 | It's allowed me to get to do 10 pull-ups as a PB. There are so many things that I can |
| 1:18.6 | attribute to understanding the power of taking action even when I feel like it's not good enough. |
| 1:25.4 | So that's what we're going to dive into today. We're going to get clear on the difference between goals and outcomes. |
| 1:30.7 | And there's this interesting bias that anyone who is successful has goals |
| 1:36.0 | or that goals are something that are important to success. |
| 1:39.6 | But it's confirmation bias because we see successful people do have goals, |
| 1:44.0 | but it's not the goals themselves see successful people do have goals, |
| 1:48.6 | but it's not the goals themselves that led them to getting success because unsuccessful people also have goals. |
| 1:52.2 | And when we think about doing anything, we want to sit down, we want to go, |
| 1:56.3 | what do I want to achieve, how much weight do I want to lose every single week, |
| 1:59.8 | where do I want to be come February, weight do I want to lose every single week, where do I want to be |
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