September 27, 2023 • 17 mins
Join me this week as I share exactly HOW I create new habits from compassion and self-kindness. I share:
- My exact four step process
- How to uncover WHY you want to have a specific habit, and what knowing WHY opens up for you
- How to make a habit so easy to do you’ll still do it on your busiest days
- The habit tracking process I’ve developed, tinkered with, and refined over the past 10 years
I walk you through step-by-step, telling you where to pause me. Give establishing a new habit with compassion a try - I tell you exactly what to do, and where to pause me, along the way.
Resources
In today’s episode, the Daily Writing Prompts that I created are mentioned - they can help you establish a daily writing practice that is easeful and fun. They are an amazing way to discover what you believe deep down, and befriend yourself along the way. Learn more HERE
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Scarlett 2i2 USB (00:24):
welcome to today's episode, How to
Establish a New Habit.
Today, I'm going to shareexactly how I establish new
habits.
I have found the best success increating a sticky habit happens
when a few things are going on-when you know why you want the
habit, when you make it reallyeasy to do, and when you set
(00:47):
yourself up to check in andtrack it for yourself.
Last week I covered, in-depth,uncovering why you want a habit
and also how to make it easy, soif you want support around that,
go back and listen to episode55, and then come back and
listen to this one to learnexactly how to break it down and
track it.
(01:09):
Okay, here we go.
Here's how I establish newhabits: the first thing I do is
I think of things that I want tostart doing, and I make a list.
Sometimes there's one thing thatI'm thinking about, sometimes
there's a lot of things.
And I think that especiallyhappens around transition so
like when you would start a newschool year, if you were still
in school, or in the new year,or around your birthday, or a
(01:32):
milestone.
So, whether it's just one habitor there's a lot of habits that
you're thinking about, list themout, like actually take the time
to write or type them out.
And then once you've done that,and if you're doing this along
with me, which I would encourageyou to do I think it's helpful
to have the built-inaccountability you can just
pause me, complete the step thatI share with you, and then come
(01:55):
back and press play when you'reready for the next bit of
information.
So, if you're doing this in realtime, pause me right now and
make that list of habits thatyou're thinking about.
And then the second step is takea moment to pause and consider:
why do you think you want to dothese new habits?
And if you've tried to do themin the past, why haven't you
(02:17):
done them?
That's like a two-part question.
So why do you want to be doingthem?
And then if you have been tryingto establish this habit, or
you've tried in the past, whydidn't you do them?
There's lots of wisdom in there.
What need might this habit bemeeting for you?
(02:38):
And then this is such a goodquestion, this is a great
question to consider wheneveryou want something, whether it's
a habit or something else,whether it's an achievement or
an object or to do something oridentity, whatever: who do you
think you'll become?
If you have this habit fullyintact?
Basically, who do you thinkyou'll become if you get this
(02:58):
thing that you want?
In this context, we're talkingabout habits, it applies to a
lot of other things, too.
It's really important to knowthe answers to these questions.
They will uncover your innermotivation, your intrinsic
motivation for wanting to have,or do, these habits.
And also they will be fuel thatdrives you to show up for the
(03:21):
new habit when you're working onestablishing it, and making it
sticky.
Okay, so again, pause me righthere if you're going to answer
those questions.
Okay, and so now I'm going toreview.
So the first thing you did wasmake a list of habits.
And the second thing is youpaused and considered a few
(03:44):
questions to get at yourinternal motivations for these
habits that you're wanting toestablish.
And now step three is you'regoing to put on your
experimenter hat and brainstorm.
With the list of habits thatyou're considering, do you
foresee any challenges?
What are they list them out?
(04:06):
An example I can think of islet's say that you want to write
first thing in the morning.
But you know that you have,maybe you have little kids or
you have to get up early and goto work, or you just know that
you don't have a ton of time inthe morning.
That's a potential challenge.
Okay.
So once you have evaluated thepotential challenges that you
(04:27):
foresee right now, then I wantyou this is where your
experimenter hat comes into playI want you to consider this
question (04:34):
how might you solve for these challenges?
What are two to three thingsthat you could do to support
yourself, to make it easier, tomake it smaller, to solve for
the potential challenges thatyou're first seeing?
And I just want to say here youwill run into roadblocks and
(04:58):
challenges.
If you weren't going to, then itwould be the most easy thing in
the whole world to create a newhabit, but we all know that it
takes perseverance and some timeto make a new habit sticky to
have it as like something that'sjust in your arsenal.
So this step, you might befeeling some resistance to it,
(05:19):
and I can actually see thatmyself, like several years ago,
I would have been feelingresistance because I'm like, I'm
not going to have anychallenges.
This should be like easy and funand great for me to do.
But now I know that when we tryto change the status quo, we're
going to run into somechallenges, whether it's
logistical in our life orwhether there's some internal
(05:40):
resistance or internal growthedges that are going to be
rubbed up against.
So planning ahead for thechallenges, the roadblocks, will
help you navigate them.
And this is important for you tobuild self efficacy, self trust,
that you give yourself the giftof planning ahead and foreseeing
(06:02):
some potential roadblocks.
And knowing that you cannavigate them if you know what
they are, you can also navigatethem real time, but if you know,
a little bit ahead of time, youmay be able to support yourself
at navigating them.
And that is one way of buildingthat self-efficacy and
self-trust that we're alldesiring, rather than getting
(06:23):
caught up in life or gettingoverwhelmed or trying to do too
much at one time or too much atonce as far as new habits go.
And falling off, I put that inair quotes, falling off, and
then believing that you aresomeone that just can't do this.
That's not available to you, orit's not available to you right
now at this stage of life.
(06:44):
Okay so, if you're doing this inreal time, pause me right here
and go through your list ofpotential habits that you're
considering, and then putting onthat experimenter hat so we're
dropping judgment and we're justgoing into like experimentation,
problem solving, if this was apuzzle or a game how might I
figure this out?
That's the ethos that I'mencouraging here.
Answering the question (07:07):
do you foresee any challenges?
What might they be listing themout?
And then once you have evaluatedthe potential challenges, then
answering the question, howmight you solve for these
challenges?
What are two to three thingsthat you could do?
Per challenge.
And getting creative.
It doesn't even have to besomething that you think you
would necessarily do, it's just,let's like, look at this really
(07:29):
creatively as like creativeproblem solving and seeing what
wisdom comes up for you.
So pause me right here.
If you're going through this inreal time.
Okay.
So, so far, I'm going to reviewthis again because I know this
is a lot of information and thisis presented in an audio format,
(07:49):
so I want to make sure thatwe're continuing to review it so
that this information becomessticky.
So far you've listed out yourdesired habits.
You've uncovered WHY you want todo them, and if you have a
history with them, why youhaven't done them in the past?
What need they might be meeting?
Who do you think you'll become?
Getting in touch with thatintrinsic motivation.
(08:13):
You've thought through potentialchallenges and you've created a
list of possible solutions.
So now that you've done that.
Now I want you to go to thatlist of habits and I want you to
go through the list of habitsthat you're considering and
narrow it down to four.
I strongly, strongly encourageyou to do four or less habits at
(08:37):
one time.
You know yourself best and youmight actually do best if you
let yourself start with justone, or you might be someone
that likes variety and you mightenjoy having three to four, and
they may be something that youdo daily-ish this concept that I
created where you don'tnecessarily do it every day, but
you do it daily ish.
(08:57):
I say no more than four, becauseI want you to set yourself up
for success.
And limiting yourself to fourrequires temperance.
And temperance will help yousystematically build the
experience of your life that youwant.
Temperance is kind of theopposite of rushing and urgency
and just like overwhelmingyourself by trying to do
(09:20):
everything at one time.
Instead it's like a brick bybrick process, right.
You're going to create up tothese four habits, make them
sticky, and then you can invitein another habit or a couple
more habits.
And we're like slowly turningthe ship instead of like, big
ships do not turn like 90degrees in one turn of the
(09:41):
wheel.
They change direction, a fewdegrees at a time and they end
up in a completely differentplace.
I think that that's such abeautiful metaphor, actually,
for this idea of creating newhabits.
You can get to an entirely newdestination by just allowing
yourself to slowly migrate, orit's slowly turn, towards it.
(10:02):
You don't need to like do a 180turn in order to end up in a
completely different place.
And actually this is a sidenote, but that would probably be
very jarring for your nervoussystem and might not actually be
the experience of life that youwant.
So that's like probably anothertopic for another time, but just
wanted to include that.
(10:24):
I want to emphasize again, toplease trust me.
I don't try to squeeze extrahabits in.
The whole reason why you want tostart a new habit is an act of
care for yourself, right?
So trying to do too much at onetime is not actually in service
of that greater goal.
(10:46):
There's no rush and there's nohurry.
You have time and you canexperiment if you give yourself
this space and this temperanceto move on this path.
And allow yourself to experimentand move at a pace that feels
good in your nervous system.
You will continue to build thesenew habits, you can work on that
(11:10):
whole list that you created.
But you can let yourself do thatover a period of time, rather
than trying to do it all atonce.
This is a tip from episode 55,but one of the most important
things you can do I guess Ishould say I explore this in
depth in episode 55, but I'mgoing to mention it here too.
(11:32):
One of the most important thingsyou can do is to scale each
habit down to the smallest stepthat you can take.
I'm going to share some exampleswith you.
So a really common example thatI hear around this is if you
want to start flossing yourteeth every night, then you just
commit to flossing one toothbefore you brush your teeth.
(11:53):
That sounds really silly, but ifyou're like not a flosser and
you start thinking about, youjust feel, start feeling all the
resistance to flossing yourteeth.
But if you I'm sure, actually,as I say that you can feel that
in your body.
Instead, if you just considerlike flossing one tooth, it's
like, yeah, no big deal.
Most likely you'll keep going,but you're committed to just
flossing one tooth.
(12:16):
And here are some of my examplesthat I have experimented with in
the past, some of them becamehabits and some of them didn't:
read one page of a book beforelooking at my phone, read one
page of a book before watchingTV.
I've done all sorts ofexperiments with meditation and
length of time, and one of themhas been just one minute of what
(12:37):
I think of as being time.
So being with myself rather thanpracticing a specific type of
meditation.
And if there was any resistance,right?
I'm going to go with thisflossing one tooth versus
flossing all of your teeth, soif one page reading one page
before looking at your phone orwatching TV, you start to feel
(12:59):
any resistance to that, then youwould scale back to one
sentence.
you felt resistance when I saidone minute of being time, then
you might scale back to 30seconds.
Another one that I teach withthe writing prompts that I have,
and The Daily-ish Writer programthat I have, is to write the day
and the prompt and one sentence.
(13:20):
And that fulfills therequirement of daily-ish
writing, right.
We're scaling this way, waydown.
That doesn't mean that every daythat's all you do, it just means
that even on the busiest daysare when you have a lot going on
or you just feel'whelmed' byeverything, you can still
succeed at the habit by doingthese smallest, by achieving
(13:40):
that minimum baseline.
You still won at the habitbecause you set yourself up for
success by creating theseminimum baselines that are the
threshold for success.
Okay so if you've been workingalong with me in real time,
while you're listening to this,you now have your up to four
habits that you want toestablish.
(14:01):
And now I want to share with youmy favorite way to track habits.
Tracking is so important is whatkeeps you on task and actually
keeping them top of mind so thatyou remember to do them.
And after many years ofexperimenting, I come back to a
very simple tracking method.
The simplest.
But it's simple and functionaland that's exactly what you need
(14:22):
for a new habit.
You don't need something that'sexciting and difficult.
And something that you're justgoing to forget to do actually.
I mean, that's such a huge partof it is just keeping it top of
mind.
So my favorite, oldest way oftracking my habits is really
simple.
I'm going to explain exactly howto do this.
So I create a table in Excel orin Google sheets and I list my
(14:45):
habits in the first column.
The habits that I'm keepingtrack of either habits, I
already have new habits, you getto decide how you want to do
this.
And then in the very first rowat the top of the table, I list
out the days of the month.
I like to do this by the monthso right now this is September.
So.
(15:06):
Today is September 20th so Iwould list out September 20th
through September 30th, and thenI would create a new one for
October.
That's how I like to do it, youcan do it however you want.
Then I create the outline of thetable so that each cell is
outlined.
And I printed out at less than ahundred percent, and how small
it depends on you.
(15:28):
But I want it to be on ideallyhalf of the page.
I like it to be small.
And then I keep that Googlesheets table on my end table.
And every night before gettinginto bed, I check off what I
did.
It's so simple, but I have somany of these tables from the
past 12 years.
It's just my favorite way totrack.
(15:50):
There are definitely higher techways of doing this and fancy
apps and all the things that youcan pay for now but I like the
physical reminder and the analognature of tracking this way.
It works for my very visualbrain.
Okay, that's what I have for youtoday.
If you have a habit that youwant to create, act on that
(16:11):
energy and excitement and givethis method a try.
All you have to do is go back tothe beginning and then we'll do
it in real time together.
And I love doing things likethat with that built-in
accountability.
And as always, I recommend thatyou give my way, the way that I
shared with you today, a try,and then adjust it and make it
yours.
(16:32):
And test it and see if it worksfor you.
I am so glad that you were hereand that we get to walk our
paths together.
See you next time.
Same time, same place.
Bye for now.
welcome to today's episode, How to
Establish a New Habit.
Today, I'm going to shareexactly how I establish new
habits.
I have found the best success increating a sticky habit happens
when a few things are going on-when you know why you want the
habit, when you make it reallyeasy to do, and when you set
(00:47):
yourself up to check in andtrack it for yourself.
Last week I covered, in-depth,uncovering why you want a habit
and also how to make it easy, soif you want support around that,
go back and listen to episode55, and then come back and
listen to this one to learnexactly how to break it down and
track it.
(01:09):
Okay, here we go.
Here's how I establish newhabits: the first thing I do is
I think of things that I want tostart doing, and I make a list.
Sometimes there's one thing thatI'm thinking about, sometimes
there's a lot of things.
And I think that especiallyhappens around transition so
like when you would start a newschool year, if you were still
in school, or in the new year,or around your birthday, or a
(01:32):
milestone.
So, whether it's just one habitor there's a lot of habits that
you're thinking about, list themout, like actually take the time
to write or type them out.
And then once you've done that,and if you're doing this along
with me, which I would encourageyou to do I think it's helpful
to have the built-inaccountability you can just
pause me, complete the step thatI share with you, and then come
(01:55):
back and press play when you'reready for the next bit of
information.
So, if you're doing this in realtime, pause me right now and
make that list of habits thatyou're thinking about.
And then the second step is takea moment to pause and consider:
why do you think you want to dothese new habits?
And if you've tried to do themin the past, why haven't you
(02:17):
done them?
That's like a two-part question.
So why do you want to be doingthem?
And then if you have been tryingto establish this habit, or
you've tried in the past, whydidn't you do them?
There's lots of wisdom in there.
What need might this habit bemeeting for you?
(02:38):
And then this is such a goodquestion, this is a great
question to consider wheneveryou want something, whether it's
a habit or something else,whether it's an achievement or
an object or to do something oridentity, whatever: who do you
think you'll become?
If you have this habit fullyintact?
Basically, who do you thinkyou'll become if you get this
(02:58):
thing that you want?
In this context, we're talkingabout habits, it applies to a
lot of other things, too.
It's really important to knowthe answers to these questions.
They will uncover your innermotivation, your intrinsic
motivation for wanting to have,or do, these habits.
And also they will be fuel thatdrives you to show up for the
(03:21):
new habit when you're working onestablishing it, and making it
sticky.
Okay, so again, pause me righthere if you're going to answer
those questions.
Okay, and so now I'm going toreview.
So the first thing you did wasmake a list of habits.
And the second thing is youpaused and considered a few
(03:44):
questions to get at yourinternal motivations for these
habits that you're wanting toestablish.
And now step three is you'regoing to put on your
experimenter hat and brainstorm.
With the list of habits thatyou're considering, do you
foresee any challenges?
What are they list them out?
(04:06):
An example I can think of islet's say that you want to write
first thing in the morning.
But you know that you have,maybe you have little kids or
you have to get up early and goto work, or you just know that
you don't have a ton of time inthe morning.
That's a potential challenge.
Okay.
So once you have evaluated thepotential challenges that you
(04:27):
foresee right now, then I wantyou this is where your
experimenter hat comes into playI want you to consider this
question (04:34):
how might you solve for these challenges?
What are two to three thingsthat you could do to support
yourself, to make it easier, tomake it smaller, to solve for
the potential challenges thatyou're first seeing?
And I just want to say here youwill run into roadblocks and
(04:58):
challenges.
If you weren't going to, then itwould be the most easy thing in
the whole world to create a newhabit, but we all know that it
takes perseverance and some timeto make a new habit sticky to
have it as like something that'sjust in your arsenal.
So this step, you might befeeling some resistance to it,
(05:19):
and I can actually see thatmyself, like several years ago,
I would have been feelingresistance because I'm like, I'm
not going to have anychallenges.
This should be like easy and funand great for me to do.
But now I know that when we tryto change the status quo, we're
going to run into somechallenges, whether it's
logistical in our life orwhether there's some internal
(05:40):
resistance or internal growthedges that are going to be
rubbed up against.
So planning ahead for thechallenges, the roadblocks, will
help you navigate them.
And this is important for you tobuild self efficacy, self trust,
that you give yourself the giftof planning ahead and foreseeing
(06:02):
some potential roadblocks.
And knowing that you cannavigate them if you know what
they are, you can also navigatethem real time, but if you know,
a little bit ahead of time, youmay be able to support yourself
at navigating them.
And that is one way of buildingthat self-efficacy and
self-trust that we're alldesiring, rather than getting
(06:23):
caught up in life or gettingoverwhelmed or trying to do too
much at one time or too much atonce as far as new habits go.
And falling off, I put that inair quotes, falling off, and
then believing that you aresomeone that just can't do this.
That's not available to you, orit's not available to you right
now at this stage of life.
(06:44):
Okay so, if you're doing this inreal time, pause me right here
and go through your list ofpotential habits that you're
considering, and then putting onthat experimenter hat so we're
dropping judgment and we're justgoing into like experimentation,
problem solving, if this was apuzzle or a game how might I
figure this out?
That's the ethos that I'mencouraging here.
Answering the question (07:07):
do you foresee any challenges?
What might they be listing themout?
And then once you have evaluatedthe potential challenges, then
answering the question, howmight you solve for these
challenges?
What are two to three thingsthat you could do?
Per challenge.
And getting creative.
It doesn't even have to besomething that you think you
would necessarily do, it's just,let's like, look at this really
(07:29):
creatively as like creativeproblem solving and seeing what
wisdom comes up for you.
So pause me right here.
If you're going through this inreal time.
Okay.
So, so far, I'm going to reviewthis again because I know this
is a lot of information and thisis presented in an audio format,
(07:49):
so I want to make sure thatwe're continuing to review it so
that this information becomessticky.
So far you've listed out yourdesired habits.
You've uncovered WHY you want todo them, and if you have a
history with them, why youhaven't done them in the past?
What need they might be meeting?
Who do you think you'll become?
Getting in touch with thatintrinsic motivation.
(08:13):
You've thought through potentialchallenges and you've created a
list of possible solutions.
So now that you've done that.
Now I want you to go to thatlist of habits and I want you to
go through the list of habitsthat you're considering and
narrow it down to four.
I strongly, strongly encourageyou to do four or less habits at
(08:37):
one time.
You know yourself best and youmight actually do best if you
let yourself start with justone, or you might be someone
that likes variety and you mightenjoy having three to four, and
they may be something that youdo daily-ish this concept that I
created where you don'tnecessarily do it every day, but
you do it daily ish.
(08:57):
I say no more than four, becauseI want you to set yourself up
for success.
And limiting yourself to fourrequires temperance.
And temperance will help yousystematically build the
experience of your life that youwant.
Temperance is kind of theopposite of rushing and urgency
and just like overwhelmingyourself by trying to do
(09:20):
everything at one time.
Instead it's like a brick bybrick process, right.
You're going to create up tothese four habits, make them
sticky, and then you can invitein another habit or a couple
more habits.
And we're like slowly turningthe ship instead of like, big
ships do not turn like 90degrees in one turn of the
(09:41):
wheel.
They change direction, a fewdegrees at a time and they end
up in a completely differentplace.
I think that that's such abeautiful metaphor, actually,
for this idea of creating newhabits.
You can get to an entirely newdestination by just allowing
yourself to slowly migrate, orit's slowly turn, towards it.
(10:02):
You don't need to like do a 180turn in order to end up in a
completely different place.
And actually this is a sidenote, but that would probably be
very jarring for your nervoussystem and might not actually be
the experience of life that youwant.
So that's like probably anothertopic for another time, but just
wanted to include that.
(10:24):
I want to emphasize again, toplease trust me.
I don't try to squeeze extrahabits in.
The whole reason why you want tostart a new habit is an act of
care for yourself, right?
So trying to do too much at onetime is not actually in service
of that greater goal.
(10:46):
There's no rush and there's nohurry.
You have time and you canexperiment if you give yourself
this space and this temperanceto move on this path.
And allow yourself to experimentand move at a pace that feels
good in your nervous system.
You will continue to build thesenew habits, you can work on that
(11:10):
whole list that you created.
But you can let yourself do thatover a period of time, rather
than trying to do it all atonce.
This is a tip from episode 55,but one of the most important
things you can do I guess Ishould say I explore this in
depth in episode 55, but I'mgoing to mention it here too.
(11:32):
One of the most important thingsyou can do is to scale each
habit down to the smallest stepthat you can take.
I'm going to share some exampleswith you.
So a really common example thatI hear around this is if you
want to start flossing yourteeth every night, then you just
commit to flossing one toothbefore you brush your teeth.
(11:53):
That sounds really silly, but ifyou're like not a flosser and
you start thinking about, youjust feel, start feeling all the
resistance to flossing yourteeth.
But if you I'm sure, actually,as I say that you can feel that
in your body.
Instead, if you just considerlike flossing one tooth, it's
like, yeah, no big deal.
Most likely you'll keep going,but you're committed to just
flossing one tooth.
(12:16):
And here are some of my examplesthat I have experimented with in
the past, some of them becamehabits and some of them didn't:
read one page of a book beforelooking at my phone, read one
page of a book before watchingTV.
I've done all sorts ofexperiments with meditation and
length of time, and one of themhas been just one minute of what
(12:37):
I think of as being time.
So being with myself rather thanpracticing a specific type of
meditation.
And if there was any resistance,right?
I'm going to go with thisflossing one tooth versus
flossing all of your teeth, soif one page reading one page
before looking at your phone orwatching TV, you start to feel
(12:59):
any resistance to that, then youwould scale back to one
sentence.
you felt resistance when I saidone minute of being time, then
you might scale back to 30seconds.
Another one that I teach withthe writing prompts that I have,
and The Daily-ish Writer programthat I have, is to write the day
and the prompt and one sentence.
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And that fulfills therequirement of daily-ish
writing, right.
We're scaling this way, waydown.
That doesn't mean that every daythat's all you do, it just means
that even on the busiest daysare when you have a lot going on
or you just feel'whelmed' byeverything, you can still
succeed at the habit by doingthese smallest, by achieving
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that minimum baseline.
You still won at the habitbecause you set yourself up for
success by creating theseminimum baselines that are the
threshold for success.
Okay so if you've been workingalong with me in real time,
while you're listening to this,you now have your up to four
habits that you want toestablish.
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And now I want to share with youmy favorite way to track habits.
Tracking is so important is whatkeeps you on task and actually
keeping them top of mind so thatyou remember to do them.
And after many years ofexperimenting, I come back to a
very simple tracking method.
The simplest.
But it's simple and functionaland that's exactly what you need
(14:22):
for a new habit.
You don't need something that'sexciting and difficult.
And something that you're justgoing to forget to do actually.
I mean, that's such a huge partof it is just keeping it top of
mind.
So my favorite, oldest way oftracking my habits is really
simple.
I'm going to explain exactly howto do this.
So I create a table in Excel orin Google sheets and I list my
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habits in the first column.
The habits that I'm keepingtrack of either habits, I
already have new habits, you getto decide how you want to do
this.
And then in the very first rowat the top of the table, I list
out the days of the month.
I like to do this by the monthso right now this is September.
So.
(15:06):
Today is September 20th so Iwould list out September 20th
through September 30th, and thenI would create a new one for
October.
That's how I like to do it, youcan do it however you want.
Then I create the outline of thetable so that each cell is
outlined.
And I printed out at less than ahundred percent, and how small
it depends on you.
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But I want it to be on ideallyhalf of the page.
I like it to be small.
And then I keep that Googlesheets table on my end table.
And every night before gettinginto bed, I check off what I
did.
It's so simple, but I have somany of these tables from the
past 12 years.
It's just my favorite way totrack.
(15:50):
There are definitely higher techways of doing this and fancy
apps and all the things that youcan pay for now but I like the
physical reminder and the analognature of tracking this way.
It works for my very visualbrain.
Okay, that's what I have for youtoday.
If you have a habit that youwant to create, act on that
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energy and excitement and givethis method a try.
All you have to do is go back tothe beginning and then we'll do
it in real time together.
And I love doing things likethat with that built-in
accountability.
And as always, I recommend thatyou give my way, the way that I
shared with you today, a try,and then adjust it and make it
yours.
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And test it and see if it worksfor you.
I am so glad that you were hereand that we get to walk our
paths together.
See you next time.
Same time, same place.
Bye for now.
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