Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, 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.

Hmm, 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 a moat, 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 podcasts 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 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 in the podcast, you need to listen to

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