#26habits update and a revelation...
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I thought we'd wrapped up #26habits in a neat, pretty bow at the end of 2018, which is why I wasn't going to include it in #apodadayinmay despite many listeners requesting an update. But then I had a revelation that changed everything...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. I am your host, Emma Gunnar |
| 0:12.4 | Wardner. I'm so glad you're here. And in this episode, let's talk habits. And by that I mean |
| 0:18.9 | a return to 26 habits. Now, long-time listeners will know that |
| 0:23.9 | this was a project I undertook in 2018 to make or break a habit every two weeks for 52 weeks, |
| 0:30.6 | hence 26 habits. Hashtack 26 habits. The idea came about, honestly, almost as a projection, |
| 0:39.5 | dare I say, of the idea of a New Year's resolution, which can, in my opinion, lead one to failure if the change you settle upon |
| 0:47.3 | requires sustained effort over time and a huge amount of willpower. Also, if you set an unrealistic |
| 0:53.3 | goal because actually you want to make quite a substantial |
| 0:55.8 | change, it's probably best to plot a course with lots of different stops along the way |
| 1:00.5 | rather than one big thing, because the intention, focus and drive we have on day one of something |
| 1:05.9 | doesn't, very sadly, necessarily define our approach three days, three weeks or three months |
| 1:12.2 | later. Consistency is key, with a lot of things. And while there may be many motivational |
| 1:18.1 | quotes out there that remind you of the importance of consistency, focus and grit, a lot of them |
| 1:22.7 | by Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The reality is that life gets in the way. If you've committed to have a very |
| 1:29.5 | light evening meal when you get home from work every day in a bid to whether it's maintain weight |
| 1:34.8 | or just to fuel yourself for your morning workout, whatever the focus may be, if you get stuck on a |
| 1:39.9 | train delay or stuck in traffic jam, stuck in a traffic jam, there's a chance you might want to get in |
| 1:45.2 | and just have toast. You know, life gets in the way. And in that moment, your New Year's resolution |
| 1:51.5 | might seem like, you know, it might just be at the back of your head. So let's all be a little bit |
| 1:55.7 | easy on ourselves. Breaking habits down into the two-week tasks meant it was actually quite easy to stick to because |
| 2:03.4 | the end was always in sight and also you kind of got a sense whether something was easy to sustain |
| 2:09.8 | which is the big thing and you really do know within a week so breaking it down into the two weeks was |
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