This is the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast and I'm your host Mari Llewellyn.

Hi guys, welcome back to another solo episode. It's just me and you chilling today and I am here to

give you some tangible tips that you can apply to your life to become a better

version of you. We're still in the early days of 2024 and I know we're all kind of thinking about ways we can improve ourselves, our lives,

optimize our routines, so I want to come here and give you guys some advice, things that I've used in my life,

on my fitness journey, in my career, things that have really helped me along the way.

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So today we're talking about how to create a habit.

They say that if you change your habits,

you change your life.

And I really, really stand behind behind this and this is a concept that I've been really

focused on at the moment because I'm reading atomic habits by James Clear because one habit I'm implementing this year is reading more and it has already taught me so much and also it's given me a lot of clarity about my weight loss journey in 2017 and why it actually worked.

I think sometimes I'm even like,

how did I accomplish such a big goal?

And when I look back, it really was due to my habits.

And I feel like a lot of us have really big goals for the New Year,

but the question is, how do we actually get there?

It's all about habits.

I really feel like our habits define who we are and it can change who we are.

But I know it's a lot easier said than done. It's like, okay, great. Healthy habits are fantastic, but how do you actually go about implementing

them? I think a lot of people think, you know, with my weight loss journey that I had an epiphany

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