S4EP18 Season 4 Wrap Up: Habits are stronger than willpower, and creating change is easier than you think

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Season 5 will be back in February, and I want to leave you with some powerful ideas for the weeks ahead. Right after the holidays, we tend to be thinking about resolutions, new habits, getting healthier, making better choices...and most of this just turns out to be wishful thinking. We don't stick with it. In this episode, we'll explore why that is, and how creating change is probably easier than you think.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 4 episode 18 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.
0:05.0	I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth
0:10.6	into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
0:15.0	Today I'm going to share some thoughts on how to create change in your life
0:19.0	and why you don't have to rely on willpower.
0:22.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript,
0:25.4	links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show.
0:29.6	So here we are at the season four wrap up already. I ran two seasons of Truth for Teachers
0:35.4	a Year, so this means we're coming up on the podcast two-year anniversary. In case you're
0:40.4	wondering why I structure it this way, it's because I wanted to keep doing
0:44.2	this podcast for a long time, and I knew that in order for it to be sustainable, I would need to
0:49.0	give myself breaks from it.
0:51.2	The time between seasons allows me to just focus on other projects and it also
0:55.2	tends to give me a renewed passion for the podcast when it's time to start recording
0:59.2	again. Truth for Teachers has grown to 50,000 downloads a month, which is sort of crazy if you think about it.
1:07.0	You may have noticed a small shift in the direction of the podcast this season, and you'll see that continue in February when we begin
1:14.4	season five. I spent the first three seasons mostly just talking from me to you
1:20.0	but I'm finding lately that I'm enjoying talking to other people too.
1:24.0	I really like reaching out to people that I find fascinating and bringing them on the show as my guest and letting you listen in on the conversation.
1:32.0	I feel like in some ways I have stretched the bounds of
1:35.8	what I personally am an expert on and I want to bring in people who are experts on other
1:40.9	things. I want to continue tackling big issues, not only in
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