I'm Dr. Edie Wadsworth and this is the Dr. Edie Show episode number 79, all about habits.

This is a short and sweet one, but don't skip it.

I want you to ask yourself this one question about your habits.

It will help you know whether the habits that you have are serving you or not serving you.

You probably already know this, but this is one simple way to find out. Now habits, we think they're hard

to form. Good habits can be hard to form, but you form habits all the time. We just need to ask

ourselves this one question. Let's dive in. Is what we're doing, is this habit making us weaker or stronger?

I want you to think of something that you ask yourself like, I don't know if I should be doing this.

Asking ourselves, does this habit make me stronger or weaker?

So I think for a lot of us when we think about habits, even when I say the word habit,

do you feel, do you immediately have a sense of shame?

Like, oh, I should have better habits. Just tell me if you immediately, like, have a sense of shame? Like, oh, I should have better habits.

Just tell me if you immediately have like a negative reaction to that. Now, because I love reading

books on habits and have about 15 of them, when I hear somebody else talk about habits,

I'm like, tell me more. What can I do?

Tell me how I can, you know, what can I learn? What tip can I learn? And so I love learning about how to

cultivate better habits, mostly because I've had a lot of bad habits, y'all. So I'm right there with you. But I also

feel like in my life, I just keep kind of tackling one, then the next one, and then the next one.

And if you just keep doing that and being patient with yourself, falling back a time or two or 12, and you just keep at it,

what you find is that a year from now, you have a lot of good habits.

And you're proud of yourself for the ones that you cultivate and that you sustain.

So over the years, I really have enjoyed working on this, even though it's something that I don't feel like I'm, you know, necessarily a master at.

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