5 Small Habits That Make a Big Difference in Our Own Marriage: Episode 208
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The idea of having good habits is so simple and it probably feels like it's overly talked about. Every person on social media that jumps in to be an influencer or coach is going to talk about your "habits". We all have some good habits, and some bad ones… but we would say maybe there are not "bad" just habits that do not serve you any more. There will be many times in your relationship that you will find this to be true as well. There are some habits (whether in communication, roles, financial, or even task management) that do not serve your relationship any longer.
At the end of the day habits are very powerful because the majority of the actions you take in a day, even the thoughts that you think or the emotions that you feel… are just habits. We have found that there are many "habits" we have put in place that are vital to the health and success of our own relationship. In this episode we talk about 5 small habits that we have put in place that now, without even thinking about them, make a big difference in our marriage!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about five small habits that make a big difference in our own marriage. |
| 0:21.7 | And what we're going to invite you to do is pick at least one, maybe two, to either commit to |
| 0:27.0 | for the first time in your life or relationship, or for some of you, these are going to be |
| 0:31.3 | things you recommit to. |
| 0:33.0 | Like when you look back on times where you were really positive, you were united as a couple, you were |
| 0:38.1 | doing some of these, but then you lost sight of them and stopped doing them. And the thing is, |
| 0:43.5 | to get the results we want in life, it's not about what we do once in a while. It's what you're |
| 0:48.5 | doing on a consistent basis day in and day out. And a lot of times it is the small things |
| 0:54.0 | that make a big difference, |
| 0:55.9 | right? Like that have you feel connected, healthy, united. Yes, maybe sometimes there's |
| 1:02.0 | like big, big things to do, but a lot of times it's all the small things that really add up |
| 1:06.1 | and it's about your habits. And so much of it is about your subconscious patterns because all your actions come |
| 1:12.6 | from your subconscious. |
| 1:14.2 | So habits are things that you don't have to really think about anymore. |
| 1:18.0 | And we want those things to be positive and beneficial, not things that are not serving |
| 1:25.6 | us as much, right? |
| 1:26.8 | And I'm actually looking over at our bookshelf. |
| 1:28.7 | If you don't think habits are that big of a deal, they don't sound to me like super |
| 1:33.0 | exciting, but an acquaintance of ours has a New York Times bestseller, B.J. Fogg, called |
| 1:38.2 | Tiny Habits. |
| 1:39.4 | So it obviously is a huge thing, even when you think about, well, habits, no big deal. |
| 1:46.7 | But they really are. |
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