Hey guys. Welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and before we get started, I want it to remind everyone about the free webinar Dr. Amy Johnson and I will be hosting at noon Eastern time on October 9th.

Some of the things we'll be talking about in this webinar are how we innocently misunderstand what anxiety is trying to tell us,

how the things we often do to help our anxiety inadvertently make it worse,

and we'll be sharing a deeper understanding that can change our experience of anxiety.

Now, we'll obviously talk about much more,

and there will be plenty of time for your questions and discussion.

And if you can't make it to the live webinar, no problem, you'll still receive a recording afterward.

So if you'd like to sign up, look for the link in the podcast episode summary for today,

or go to panic and anxietycoach.com backslash webinar.

So in the spirit of talking about changing habits so much lately,

I wanted to share a Japanese concept I recently heard for today's episode, known as Kaizen. Kaisen literally means change and wisdom, so the whole

idea is using our wisdom, not willpower or force, to ignite and sustain a change.

Why are so many of our New Year's resolutions so short-lived?

Well, because we all try to take on too much change too fast.

Change is really challenging enough on its own.

But when we take on too much change too fast, we're left feeling exhausted, and so we lose

motivation because we haven't had a chance to see the benefit of this change.

All we can see is how hard and tiring it feels.

So we quit.

This is where Kaizen comes in handy.

It's also referred to as the one-minute principle for self-improvement.

The idea being that most of us can get on board with trying something new, whether it be

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