You'l move in the right direction over time

Be patient when results aren't immediate or linear

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is that while results might not be immediate, when
you do things day after day, they do add up.

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Over time, things will move in the right direction. Today's
tip comes from an interview James Clear did on Peter
Attia's podcast. Clear, who is the author of Atomic Habits,
said that over long time horizons, your results tend to
bend in the direction of your habits. I think this

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phrase is an encouraging one because the words long time
horizon and tend make it clear what we are up against.
Change can take a lot long time. These words normalize
that results are not guaranteed to be immediate. Sadly, you
can't take one day off from drinking soda or alcohol

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and expect your entire life to change. There are no
promises of seeing results in seven days or even seven months.
Tend to bend also means that not all movement will
be in the direction of their desired results. You can
definitely see setbacks. You might be trying to build more

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local friendships, so you put a lot of time into
cultivating a friendship with someone local and then she moves.
You put a lot of effort into starting a running habit,
and then you get injured. These things can be incredibly discouraging,
but if you keep at it, most likely you will
eventually move in the right direction. You just need to

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stick with it. Personally, I'm trying to build the habit
of strength training as a forty somethingter woman with a
history of back issues, I know I need to build
my muscle strength to avoid pain and injury. In twenty
twenty three, I started doing a weekly strength session with
a virtual trainer. I usually repeat what we do together

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in another session or two on my own each week.
Trust me, I do not love it. Alert listeners might
also remember that I had a massive back pain episode
in early twenty twenty four, which was one year into
serious strength training. This was discouraging for sure, but over

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time one does get stronger. I've noticed that I am
able to pick up my five year old more easily
these days, even as he gets bigger. Results tend to
bend in the direction of your habits. So if there
is a result you want in your life, identify wi
fie little ways you could move yourself in that direction,

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and then just be patient, notice little changes if you
possibly can. Maybe they won't happen today, probably not tomorrow either,
but eventually the movement will be clear. In the meantime,
this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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