The habits most likely to help us make progress are the ones we're most challenged by, the ones which get in the way of going about our day. Convenience is the enemy of discovery, creativity and adventure. But, it's this sort of pioneering, doing the hard, and often inconvenient thing which leads to innovation and better. And, it almost never happens by chance. It happens because we decided to go there, then to build a regimen and endure the slog.
Mostly, convenience is for our comfort. And no creative act or art comes from comfort. Rather, it's born from pushing ourselves towards inconvenience and the discomfort of it. The paradox is the practice of building in habits of discomfort ultimately becomes comfortable. It becomes our new normal. And this in turn demands more discomfort. And so the ratchet turns.
Small, intentional inconveniences eventually make things better. It's a habit worth forming.