Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that before you quit something you felt
Speaker 1: was important for your life, just try doing it for
Speaker 1: one more day, not for eternity, but just for one
Speaker 1: more day. Often that's all that's required to keep going
Speaker 1: a lot longer. Whenever we attempt something big, it's easy
Speaker 1: to get ahead of ourselves. Maybe you're training for a
Speaker 1: half marathon and are staring down a ten mile run
Speaker 1: a few weeks from now. You're wondering how you're going
Speaker 1: to make it through that. Or maybe you've decided to
Speaker 1: meditate daily, but the idea of daily for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life just seems overwhelming. This can be true
Speaker 1: for any sort of challenging thing. People who are giving
Speaker 1: up drinking or smoking might wonder how on earth they're
Speaker 1: going to deal with years of sobriety or staying away
Speaker 1: from their first choice method of managing stress. But whenever
Speaker 1: a long time frame seems overwhelming, it's helpful too narrow
Speaker 1: the time frame. With abstaining from alcohol, people learn to
Speaker 1: take things one day at a time, don't worry about tomorrow,
Speaker 1: just don't have a drink tonight. There's some real wisdom
Speaker 1: in this, even for activities that are far less consequential.
Speaker 1: In running, it's one mile at a time. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about the twenty mile run the mile you're in. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about how you'll fit in your meditation sessions six
Speaker 1: months from now, when you can see that life is
Speaker 1: going to get even busier, just figure out today. Who
Speaker 1: knows if you'll feel like doing your daily journaling next week.
Speaker 1: If you can write a few sentences in that journal
Speaker 1: to day, you're good. So if you are feeling resistance
Speaker 1: to some new habit, try focusing just on the next
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Do the habit to day. Whatever the
Speaker 1: minimal amount is required to sustain it. You can quit
Speaker 1: tomorrow if you want to. Quitting tomorrow is always an option,
Speaker 1: but give yourself at least a twenty four hour window
Speaker 1: to think about it. The odds are pretty good that
Speaker 1: when you push quitting forward twenty four hours you'll decide
Speaker 1: not to quit. Whatever felt terrible to day won't feel
Speaker 1: so bad tomorrow or tomorrow. Maybe you'll look at what
Speaker 1: you've bitten off and decide that it's still doable. Then too,
Speaker 1: so you push quitting forward another day. Forever is just
Speaker 1: made up of a lot of days strung together. Eventually
Speaker 1: it will all seem easier and thus a new habit
Speaker 1: is born. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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