Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to view slip ups on the way toward
Speaker 1: a goal as a signal, not a setback. When approached
Speaker 1: with curiosity, these failures can give very useful information. So
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago I welcomed Ruby Reula as a
Speaker 1: guest to this show. Ruby is a screen time strategist
Speaker 1: and she had all sorts of ideas for spending less
Speaker 1: time on our phones. One of her key pillars is
Speaker 1: that when you find yourself scrolling more or more frequently
Speaker 1: than you mean to, you should view this as a signal,
Speaker 1: not a setback. You don't need to decide that you
Speaker 1: have failed and throw in the towel on it t
Speaker 1: your goals. Instead, you can look at what happened and
Speaker 1: figure out what you can from the sequence of events.
Speaker 1: What led you to pick up your phone, why did
Speaker 1: you start scrolling, What time of day was it, what
Speaker 1: was happening, what was your mood? Where did you go first,
Speaker 1: why did you stay? Knowing the answers to these questions,
Speaker 1: that is interpreting the signal, can help you make smarter
Speaker 1: choices for next time. If you tend to scroll endlessly
Speaker 1: when you are bored, well you can figure out how
Speaker 1: to put more interesting things in your lives so you
Speaker 1: can spend less time on doing this. I think this
Speaker 1: is a good approach to building any sort of habit
Speaker 1: or achieving any sort of goal. A slip up is
Speaker 1: not a failure. It is a signal, not a setback.
Speaker 1: Something in your original approach might need tweaking to account
Speaker 1: for life as it is, or for complications that you
Speaker 1: might not have originally seen. For instance, maybe you're trying
Speaker 1: to drink less coffee in the afternoon, but you find
Speaker 1: yourself almost nodding off during a two pm meeting, so
Speaker 1: you grab an espresso rather than brating yourself when you
Speaker 1: are still wired at ten pm. You can analyze this situation.
Speaker 1: How much are you sleeping at night? When are you
Speaker 1: waking up, Why do you wake up at that time?
Speaker 1: What does your morning caffeine intake look like? When do
Speaker 1: you find yourself getting sleepy through the day? Is there
Speaker 1: anything you can do to change that? Are there other
Speaker 1: ways you can boost your energy? Or maybe there are
Speaker 1: ways to make that two pm meeting less boring. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but we can approach this with curiosity and
Speaker 1: try to interpret the signal rather than viewing ourselves as terrible,
Speaker 1: weak willed people. Building a sustainable habit is not about
Speaker 1: never having any setbacks. It's about learning from these setbacks
Speaker 1: so you can keep going even when life is what
Speaker 1: it is. We often design our habits for perfect situations,
Speaker 1: then get frustrated when these perfect situations don't continually exist.
Speaker 1: But viewing setbacks as signals allows us to refine our
Speaker 1: goals and figure out new ideas that might make success possible.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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