Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is that getting started on pursuing a goal
Speaker 2: can be hard, but once you have taken even a
Speaker 2: baby step, sticking with your goal pursuit make it easier.
Speaker 2: So gently invite yourself to start and watch your goal
Speaker 2: get rolling from there. Today's tip comes from psychology professor
Speaker 2: Johanna pets and the Character Lab newsletter. As Pete explains,
Speaker 2: it's often harder to get started than to keep going
Speaker 2: on a task, and the closer you get to achieving
Speaker 2: a goal, the easier it gets. So you could argue
Speaker 2: that the hardest part of reaching a goal is getting started.
Speaker 2: Given that, she advises making it easier to begin your
Speaker 2: goal pursuit by accepting even a small step as an
Speaker 2: adequate start. She suggests telling yourself today is a good
Speaker 2: day for getting started. That phrase, today is a good
Speaker 2: day for getting started, and the freedom to take a
Speaker 2: small step are very encouraging. There are times when setting
Speaker 2: ambitious goals and flying out of the starting gate can
Speaker 2: be helpful, but when your schedule or your spirits means
Speaker 2: a fast start is not doable. Accepting and celebrating even
Speaker 2: little steps can be a way of making some progress
Speaker 2: when you might not begin at all if the first
Speaker 2: step seem daunting. Maybe you need to prepare for a
Speaker 2: big moved, but you can't bear to face packing up
Speaker 2: your closet, much less the entire basement. Today is a
Speaker 2: good day for getting started, and getting started might mean
Speaker 2: just procuring packing supplies, or maybe even just some tape.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to get fit, even though you haven't
Speaker 2: exercise since your last baby was born six years ago.
Speaker 2: Today is a good day for getting started, perhaps by
Speaker 2: downloading the couch to five k app or even just
Speaker 2: going for a ten minute walk. Maybe you want to
Speaker 2: find a new job. Today is a good day for
Speaker 2: getting started, so you could decide to review your most
Speaker 2: recent resume and identify content that you want to add
Speaker 2: when you update it. Once you've taken that first step,
Speaker 2: you can continue to encourage your progress with gentle invitations
Speaker 2: to take doable next steps. As Pete suggests, you might
Speaker 2: say today is a good day to get started on
Speaker 2: step two, but the point is simply to do something today.
Speaker 2: If most things get easier over time, than what you
Speaker 2: do today is helping towards your bigger goals. As long
Speaker 2: as you choose to do something today, you can choose
Speaker 2: to do something on all the other today's. But no
Speaker 2: need to worry about that just yet. Just knowing today
Speaker 2: is good is fine. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 2: our time.
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