Speaker 1: God, Ar'm Sam Wood, and your motivational moment for this week.
Speaker 1: It's very, very simple. It's about overcoming a difficulty with
Speaker 1: just three tries. And you've probably heard me say on
Speaker 1: this show before, particularly when it comes to workouts, if
Speaker 1: you're not really feeling on that day, just do five minutes.
Speaker 1: And something I say to people I help in an
Speaker 1: excise sense if they've lost their way a little bit,
Speaker 1: if they've lost their momentum, is often you're only three
Speaker 1: workouts in three days away from getting back on track.
Speaker 1: Then I was thinking, it's really interesting in my sort
Speaker 1: of you know, late thirties, early forties, where I've gone
Speaker 1: back and actually done stuff that I'd done in my
Speaker 1: twenties and it hadn't stuck. And I blamed the thing,
Speaker 1: but it was me, you know, it was my attitude.
Speaker 1: It was kind of this. I didn't give it. I
Speaker 1: didn't give it a good enough crack, I guess, is
Speaker 1: my point. And and now I regret it. From way
Speaker 1: back to music lessons in my teenage years, to yoga
Speaker 1: in my twenties, and any type of meditation mindfulness that
Speaker 1: I was on again, off again, but never on again
Speaker 1: for more than one or two tries in my thirties
Speaker 1: and the fact that I do these now and they're
Speaker 1: making my life so much better. But I do admit
Speaker 1: the first time meditation or yoga, to use those two examples, stuck.
Speaker 1: The first thing that I thought was, why didn't I
Speaker 1: just give this a proper go ten years ago, fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago when I was first introduced to them. So
Speaker 1: that sort of led to what I wanted to chat
Speaker 1: to about today, just three tries. I speak to people
Speaker 1: a lot, and I recommend, whether it's cold showers or
Speaker 1: ice bars or saunas or getting into running or whatever,
Speaker 1: it is, things that I know have made my life
Speaker 1: infinitely better. And they come back to me, no, mate,
Speaker 1: gave it to try, not for me? Now? How long?
Speaker 1: For seven seconds? And I'm like, okay, well, let's let's
Speaker 1: last two minutes in the culture and let's do it
Speaker 1: three days in a row. And if you still feel
Speaker 1: that way, I can handle that. Some things just aren't
Speaker 1: for some people. I'm not saying everything that I do
Speaker 1: should be what you do. That's the last thing I'd
Speaker 1: ever say to you. But whether it's a new thing
Speaker 1: or whether it's something that perhaps you've tried in the past,
Speaker 1: and failed, and I hate that word failed. But let's
Speaker 1: say tried in the past and it hasn't stuck and
Speaker 1: it was more of a you thing than another thing thing.
Speaker 1: The thinking I want you to identify two. So I
Speaker 1: want you to try a new one and I want
Speaker 1: you to bring back an old one, because if you
Speaker 1: do something three times over let's say six months, once
Speaker 1: every two months, that's probably a bit stretched and you're
Speaker 1: not necessarily going to get the stickiness. So let's say,
Speaker 1: let's put some boundaries around it. It's got to be
Speaker 1: at least three tries in two weeks or les, so
Speaker 1: there's no more than four or five days between getting
Speaker 1: this particular thing done again and again and again. And
Speaker 1: that is the rule. So my task for you would
Speaker 1: life listeners. What's something new that you've been thinking about
Speaker 1: giving a crack two for a long time now that
Speaker 1: you're going to give at least three tries to I'll
Speaker 1: say at least three. If you think it might take
Speaker 1: four or five for it to stick, I'm happy for
Speaker 1: you to go there, but it can't be any less
Speaker 1: than three. And what's one that perhaps you've done in
Speaker 1: the past. We might be going back six months. We
Speaker 1: might be going back fifteen years. That's up to you.
Speaker 1: You will know the answer to what that thing is.
Speaker 1: I want you to bring it back. I want you
Speaker 1: to give it a proper go at least three tries,
Speaker 1: and then I want to hear from you. I would
Speaker 1: absolutely love to know what you have tried, and don't
Speaker 1: tell me on the third try. Maybe wait till where
Speaker 1: you've done it for a few weeks and it really
Speaker 1: is starting to feel like a good habit is beginning
Speaker 1: to form. Bring it back, get it part of your routine,
Speaker 1: and then share it with me so I can share
Speaker 1: it with all of our listeners, because I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear your stories.