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 that you can always quit tomorrow. If there
Speaker 1: is a new commitment, goal, or habit that you thought
Speaker 1: you wanted to pursue but now feel inclined to abandon,
Speaker 1: consider staying with it one more day. You can always
Speaker 1: quit tomorrow, but if you stick with it today, you
Speaker 1: might find you can stick with it for the long haul.
Speaker 1: When a habit, routine, or commitment is fairly new, it
Speaker 1: can feel hard to keep going. You haven't figured out
Speaker 1: all the logistics, you can't necessarily get in the flow.
Speaker 1: Maybe you wanted to work out in the mornings, but
Speaker 1: every morning it is a struggle to get out of bed,
Speaker 1: and it's a struggle to breathe ten minutes into your
Speaker 1: spin class. Or maybe you wanted to read Shakespeare every
Speaker 1: day and get through all his plays by the end
Speaker 1: of the year, But by the time the kids are
Speaker 1: in bed and the dishes are done, all you want
Speaker 1: to do is veg on the couch with your partner.
Speaker 1: In moments like these, when your new commitment seems hard,
Speaker 1: you may be tempted to give up. After all, you
Speaker 1: haven't been going that long anyway, Who cares if you
Speaker 1: abandon a routine that isn't actually established. But maybe you
Speaker 1: can hang on one more day. Tomorrow you can curl
Speaker 1: up on the couch and watch Netflix if you really
Speaker 1: want to. But tonight you have a date with William Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: You are not going to stand him up. By delaying
Speaker 1: quitting by one day. You give yourself one more chance
Speaker 1: to figure out how to make your new commitment work.
Speaker 1: You develop a little more momentum. Maybe you will decide
Speaker 1: to quit the next day, But maybe tomorrow you will
Speaker 1: decide to defer the decision to quit for another day again,
Speaker 1: And some days you won't even consider quitting. After more
Speaker 1: and more practice, you may begin to feel like your
Speaker 1: new habit, or your goal pursuit isn't that hard. Now,
Speaker 1: it is possible that you will eventually decide to quit
Speaker 1: or modify the goal. Basically, everything does end in time.
Speaker 1: But it is also possible that you will fulfill the
Speaker 1: commitment one more time, day after day, until you have
Speaker 1: forgotten about your desire to quit. You will have built
Speaker 1: the strategies and momentum to sustain your habit for the
Speaker 1: long term. I will admit that I sometimes feel like
Speaker 1: quitting while building new habits. I just got through a
Speaker 1: busy weekend and it was hard to carve out a
Speaker 1: few minutes to read my ten pages of Jane Austen.
Speaker 1: One day. In particular, I couldn't get to it until nighttime,
Speaker 1: even though this is technically supposed to be part of
Speaker 1: my morning routine, and alas the first page I was
Speaker 1: reading wasn't one of Austin's best, I started bargaining with myself,
Speaker 1: maybe just one page or two that keeps the streak
Speaker 1: going at least, right, and it would, But after reading
Speaker 1: two or three pages, I figured, well, this is only
Speaker 1: going to take me a few more minutes. I may
Speaker 1: as well keep reading. I can just read today and
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow will be better. And you know what it was,
Speaker 1: and so I am still going with the habit. You
Speaker 1: can always quit tomorrow, and if you keep thinking that,
Speaker 1: you'll get through a lot of tomorrow's and maybe not
Speaker 1: quit anytime soon after all. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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