Want to make more progress in life? Then do this one action every week.

It is so frustrating when you realise you haven’t made much progress isn’t it.

You can have a sudden moment when you remember you were suppose to be getting up thirty minutes earlier to exercise. Or you wonder when you stopped reading that book. Or your spouse comments how you don’t talk to her much and you realise you recall your ill-fated plan to spend the first 15 minutes after work asking about her day.

It can be so demoralising to have an idea, take some action but somewhere along the way just stop. Sometimes I can’t even remember when or how this happened. Wracked with guilt and a sense of failure you then make a half-hearted promise to restart towards your goal or dream.

There is a better way though. I want to share one simple action that will massively improve yours chances of following through on your plans and goals.

But first you need to realise that your slow progress it’s really your fault. Did you know that humans have a tendency to walk round in circles and not make forward progress?

It’s been proven to be true.

Jan Souman, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, ran an experiment where he blindfolded 15 people and asked them to walk in a straight line. All of them ended up walking in surprisingly small circles — with a diameter of less than 66 feet.