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🗓️ 30 August 2021
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0:00.0 | It's tough to stick with workout routines and making time to hit the gym is sometimes even harder. |
0:05.0 | That's why Peloton offers options that fit into your day with thousands of on-demand classes, |
0:09.9 | so you can work out when it's right for you. Peloton goes beyond just the bike, |
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0:19.6 | fitness goals. Try Peloton risk-free with a 30-day home trial. New members only, not available in |
0:25.1 | remote location, see additional terms at onepeloton.com slash home trial. I'm Grechyn Rubin and this is |
0:32.0 | a little happier. In my book about habit change better than before, I describe the 21 strategies we |
0:38.4 | can use to make or break our habits. One important strategy is the strategy of first steps, |
0:44.9 | which is all about the right time to begin. The most important step is the first step, |
0:50.9 | because until we take that first step, we haven't begun. But beginning is hard. That's why the |
0:58.8 | strategy of first steps is so important. It helps us figure out how to start. I'm always fascinated |
1:05.2 | to learn about different ways people grapple with the 21 strategies, so it was very interesting to |
1:10.6 | read about how the writer Isabel Aende used the strategy of first steps by finding an auspicious day |
1:17.2 | for her beginnings. In 1981, Isabel Aende was living in Venezuela as a political refugee after |
1:24.0 | the military coup in Chile, and she was working at a school. On January 8th, she got a phone call |
1:30.4 | that her beloved grandfather was dying in Chile, and she couldn't go back to say goodbye. |
1:36.9 | In her grief and frustration, she began writing a letter to him, a spiritual farewell, |
1:42.4 | and this letter turned into her first novel. She recalled, |
1:47.2 | I remembered everything he had ever told me about his life, the family anecdotes, the history of our |
1:54.2 | country. As soon as I began the letter, I realized it was not a normal letter. It was part novel, |
2:00.0 | part memoir, part family saga, and political chronicle. My grandfather died without reading the letter, |
2:06.6 | and I continued to write at night and on the weekends in the kitchen of our apartment. |
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