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Welcome to the weekend edition of the naughty but nice podcast. I'm Rob Schueter. You know me as a gossip columnist, as an entertainment reporter, journalist, but what you might not know is I'm also a best-selling author and also an expert in motivation, change habits. So for 10 minutes on the weekend,

we're going to stay away from celebrity gossip and focus on really the biggest star in your life,

which is you. Today's topic is going to be how to stop those old cruel habits from returning.

So the reason we give up on our summer diets, the big plans we have to change our lives,

or maybe even the New Year's Eve resolutions, it's already what?

February, the end of February, have you

already given up on those? The reason we do this is it is much easier to go back to living the

old way than to live the new way and make a change.

Change is hard.

Let me say that again.

Change is hard.

And the minute our focus shifts, old habits come rushing back.

We're all basically creatures of habit, designed to find comfort in our daily routines,

which is why before long, without putting up much of a fight at all, the new game is over,

and the old game and old behaviour wins. Your gym membership has expired. You forgot

what a vegetable even looks like and you'd rather stay home and watch TV than get dressed up and

go out. This is why we have to remain focused and alert. If you don't want to drift back

into your old ways, you cannot allow your mind to drift not for a minute. You need to constantly

remind yourself, I'm talking every day here, that you are making a choice.

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