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Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh. Hey there,

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Speaker 1: I said, hey there for Chuck too. Go ahead and

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Speaker 1: say hey they're Chuck.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, that's our routine.

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Speaker 1: Let's start.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about routines today, and I think this is

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Speaker 2: a good one because it's like everyone knows routines are

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Speaker 2: good for you, but it turns out routines are great

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Speaker 1: You might even say they're great for you. You might

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Speaker 1: even say, there, frosted flakes is a routine.

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Speaker 2: You might even say they're crucial, and they are because

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Speaker 2: they their game changes for almost every part of your life.

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Speaker 2: You can think of mental health, physical health, emotional health,

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Speaker 2: safety and security for children. We'll get into all this,

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Speaker 2: but a repeated healthy pattern of behaviors to focus on

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Speaker 2: helps us when we're off the rails and to solidify

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Speaker 2: us when we feel unmoored. It helps buttress us when

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Speaker 2: we feel solid. Yeah, there have been countless studies. I

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Speaker 2: saw one from Tel Aviv University, but there are hundreds

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Speaker 2: of studies of how routines and habits and we'll get

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Speaker 2: into the diff Basically help you reduce anxiety, help you

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Speaker 2: calm yourself, and just put you on a good path in.

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Speaker 1: Life, which makes sense because what you're doing is creating

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Speaker 1: times of uncertainty and give yourself familiarity, like a security blanket. Almost. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. And there's a huge

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Speaker 1: routines are having a moment. You could say they're big

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Speaker 1: right now, and I think it's very appropriate that you

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Speaker 1: use the word game changer because that's the kind of

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Speaker 1: attention it's getting right now. People use game changer are

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Speaker 1: super into like figuring out routines and figuring out how

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Speaker 1: they're like, how to perfectly optimize them, how to make

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Speaker 1: them as essential as possible. And there is some actual

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Speaker 1: like research and science to this. But you said that

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Speaker 1: there's a difference between habits and routines. I disagree. I

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Speaker 1: know some people say, no, they're actually different. I think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're sort of splitting hairs a bit.

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Speaker 2: I've found some stuff that said basically that, and we

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Speaker 2: should think, well, we got our sources from a lot

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Speaker 2: of different places. Do you know some of them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Northwestern med Parenting, University of Iowa. Real simple. There

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Speaker 1: was a post by a guy named Brad Stolberg. I

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Speaker 1: can't remember what side. I'll have to look it up,

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Speaker 2: Good stuff though, But I did see it broken down

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Speaker 2: as The difference is that a habit is associated with

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Speaker 2: your private parts, and that a routine exists without that queue.

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Speaker 2: It's not dependent on that queue. But I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: with you. It's sort of splitting hairs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I also think that routines are dependent on cues.

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Speaker 1: I mean we talk about them later. Like if you

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Speaker 1: exercise quoth. That's a cue. I don't think that they

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Speaker 1: can exist without cues. There's because if they existed without cues,

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Speaker 2: So your que is being awake like you could you.

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Speaker 1: Would basically, but you would you would just like you

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Speaker 2: certain amount of will power, and some people may have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just one less decision you have to make

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And I think decision fatigue is a real thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just wear all black like that one be from Thanos,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's take a break. We'll talk about how

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Speaker 1: So to establish a routine, it's the same thing as

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Speaker 1: And one of them is that you can you can

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Speaker 1: so this was a great idea, Chuck, take your laptop

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Speaker 2: And they've done research that says that pairing things together

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's like, so you're setting yourself up

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Speaker 1: He didn't even think about it. He just did it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think another good thing to remember is

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Speaker 2: people function much better in the evening and at night.

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Speaker 2: that evening and setting yourself up for that success is key.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's that's kind of part of a warning

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Speaker 1: Like he said, basically, if you're trying to sell a

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people out there right

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Speaker 2: shut up, Josh.

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Speaker 1: Those are the people who say game changer.

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Speaker 2: Right, and influencer and disruptor and all those other words.

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Speaker 2: Kids and routines. I included this bit because it's just

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Speaker 1: Well, it's so important too. I mean, like, routines are

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Speaker 2: Essential for kids, extra extra essential for any kid with

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Speaker 2: any kind of neurodiversity. They talk about routines just being critical.

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Speaker 2: Kids love surprises when it's ice cream. Kids don't love

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Speaker 2: It's crucial to get anything done. But you know, once

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Speaker 2: It's not up for debate. That stuff is still going

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can imagine that. Yeah, you're still going to

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Speaker 2: No, she doesn't question why, and we've gotten pretty good

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Speaker 1: Did that come from Parenting Magazine?

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Speaker 2: It did, Doctor Spock.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things that you do want to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and be smart about mixing up your routine. That

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean if you've got a great workout plan that

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Speaker 2: like I'm going to wear a completely different outfit than

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Speaker 2: Just little things like that can can move your brain

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Speaker 2: little thing like taking a different route to school can

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Speaker 1: Plus, also, if you're afraid of being kidnapped, you should

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Speaker 1: more thing that you should mix up as far as

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Speaker 1: For one, you can really overdo your muscles if you're

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Speaker 2: You gotta have legs day for sure.

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Speaker 1: And then the other thing about it is you can

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Speaker 1: actually like jumpstart all sorts of different things in your body,

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Speaker 1: positive things by changing up your exercise routine, because again,

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Speaker 1: your body gets used to it, find shortcuts, and you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, check on. I'm gonna go make a new routine.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is yet, but I'm going

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Speaker 1: back to you on it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What's funny is we have our work routine that's very

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Speaker 2: pretty much ingrained, and I am guilty of, Like when

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Speaker 2: you've suggested different things that I'm like, no, yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm believes don't change this.

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Speaker 1: I know what you mean. I feel very similar. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I haven't said that in years that you

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Speaker 1: feel similar with me. No, No, that like we should

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Speaker 2: It's been a minute.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, good stuff. Oh oh, sorry, Chuck's that

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Speaker 1: good stuff everybody. That's the cue for our routine, which

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Speaker 1: means short stuff is out.

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