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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to do some rather than none.

Even if you can't do your normal routines or meet your goals for a day, doing a little something is often better than nothing at all.

You keep the habit and make a little progress, which means there might be less to make up later.

So we have all been there. You plan to go to the gym after work, but in the work day with little energy.

You are trying to read through an immense book, but reading much of it on a certain day seems daunting.

You resolve to work on your novel, but you are facing a creative block, or the day is rapidly getting away from you.

We are human. From years of studying people's habits and goals, I am pretty sure that we often set way too lofty expectations for what we can do on any given day.

These expectations then feel overwhelming in the moment, and we give up on the hard days, and then have trouble getting back in.

Better to keep expectations low, but even if you haven't set low expectations on any given day, it might help to lower them a bit.

Do some rather than none, and you maintain the habit while moving forward.

So if you are too tired to do a full workout, but the gym is on the way home,

tell yourself you'll just stop there for five minutes. You will lift that set of dumbbells once, or you will simply read one page in that giant book you're attacking.

One page. You don't have to write for an hour. You will just write one sentence.

These choices to do some rather than none, do a few good things.

Many times, once you have started, you will keep going. You are at the gym, so it doesn't seem like a big deal to move on to the leg press after those dumbbells.

Or something cool happens on that one page you are reading, and you want to find out what happens next.

But even if you only do a little bit, you haven't stopped the habit.

You have made some progress, which is less progress you will have to make in the future.

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