And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 160. It's titled Anything is Better

Than Nothing and if you're ready, we'll start the show. First off folks, I want to quickly

mention that I've been thinking about the format of this podcast and whether I'm giving

you what you want. I know you must like what I do to a degree. I'm almost always in the UK

top 20 and often sneak into the top 10, so I know that people are listening, but is it what you

want? Now this is probably prompted by some of these emails I get from publicists, asking me I'd like a guest on the show and maybe someone's got a personal development book out or something and they'd like to share their stuff with you. And I've always politely told them that I don't have guests on my show but I'd be in touch if that ever changed. So I thought I'd put the ball in your court,

after all, it's you I do this for. So I've added a little suggestion form to the website.

If you go to Motivateyourself.co.uk, there's a single line form to submit that just asks one

question, would you like some guests on the podcast from time to time? It's anonymous, so I'm not

doing it to collect your email address so that I can spam you with ideas of buying my hypnosis

downloads, although you're very welcome to. Go for it. But I'm genuinely interested in whether

the format of the podcast is what you want, so please let me know. Anyway, on with the show. I almost called the

episode, enough is enough, but it sounded a bit ambiguous as if the episode was going to be a rant

about something. But the general gist of what I want to get across today is that if there's something

you want to achieve that you know is going to take a while

and has many steps like getting fitter, writing a dissertation, eating an elephant, sometimes doing

enough is enough. We can be really hard on ourselves for not putting in much effort, and I get it,

it's likely that sometimes you

could have done more to help you move to where you want to be. But if you did something,

then it's better than nothing. I was talking to a journalist recently for an article in a magazine

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