Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about how to make a difficult change.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's tune in to the sound of the bells. Have you ever found yourself trying to make a change in your life, but struggling to do so?

Maybe a different way you want to act in the world, be, emote, behave, just some sort of change, maybe even a habit change, but really struggling

to put that into place in any sort of sustainable way.

Well, as you can imagine, making behavior change and shifting habits is a whole big area

and we could do a full year's worth of podcast episodes just on that.

But one of the big things that makes it difficult to make change in a sustainable way

is that we don't yet have the infrastructure, the thought patterns, the

belief systems that we would have if we were the kind of person that did the thing we want to do.

So what do I mean by that?

Well, let's say you're someone that wants to read more.

And you already have a finite amount of time

throughout the day, you already feel stretched.

And the idea of getting in more reading,

like a half hour of reading already feels like a lot and what happens

you you make the intention to read more maybe you know 20 pages per day but as you go throughout your day, other things come up.

There are the podcasts you need to listen to, the conversations you need to have the phone

calls, you need to make, this time with the kids, time for emails, everything just comes in and it gets in the way of doing the

thing that you want to do. Now it might sound like I'm taking this in the

direction of learning to manage your time and your priorities, but it's not quite that.

Because there are people that have lots to do that get that amount of reading done or twice as much, three times as much or four times as much.

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