Hey, welcome to the Going Scared Podcast. I'm Jessica Hanagher, founder of the World

Changing Brand New Day Collection, and I'm so glad to have you here. We are doing a little

teaser on our new series called Habits for Highly Hesitant Habit Keepers. I have missed

you, but we have been doing so much work behind the scenes to prepare for this series.

So at the end of last year, I read that the book Atomic Habits was one of the top-selling

books of the entire year. This surprised me a little bit because I was crawling to the

finish line of last year. You guys heard it through my podcast on Self Awareness. I'm super

transparent. We had a bumpy road the last six months of last year and I just found myself

tired. And the last thing I want to do when I'm tired is start new habits. And so I was

like, wow, but everyone else in America apparently really wants to start new habits. Then

I found out that of the 40% of you guys that make New Year's resolutions, only 9% of

you actually end up keeping those. I know a lot of us approach the New Year with, yes,

I have this intention. I'm going to do this new thing now. And by about right now, I want

you to just take a look back at Jan one and what you're feeling then and what you're feeling

now. A lot of us haven't been able to have that stick to itness with our new habits.

So I wanted a series specifically about how do we start stop but really keep habits for

some of those hesitant habits that we have in our lives. So we are going to be covering

so many habits. Okay, this is embarrassing. I'm going to say it. I'm going to the dentist

for the first time in two years. I'm going to the OB for the first time in five. We're going

to interview my doctors about why do these appointments even matter. We are going to talk

about the habit of meal planning with Holly Erickson of the modern proper whose new book

that comes out in a couple months is all about week day meals. We're going to talk with

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