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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that, when it comes to good habits, you don't have to aim for perfection or even a big jump from where you are now in order to see improvement.
Just aim for better, and that should be good enough.
If you're like a lot of people probably listeners to this show, you have some self-improvement goals.
Maybe you'd like to exercise more often or build more social connection into your life, eat better or save more money.
It can feel appealing to set lofty goals.
But in many cases, when something requires a huge change, it just won't happen.
We build our lives as they are for a reason.
So instead of aiming for perfection or dramatic improvement, just aim for better.
Little tweaks stand a much better chance of sticking.
So if you track your time and see that you are generally exercising once a week and this doesn't feel like enough to you, just try to get to twice.
If you are doing twice, aim for three times a week.
After all, three times a week is a habit.
And if you don't exercise at all, just try for once.
One more time per week than whatever you are doing is meaningful progress.
Once that rhythm becomes established, you can always nudge the goal up a bit higher if you want.
But even if you don't, you will still be in a better spot just by aiming for better than what was happening before.
If it is social connection that you are hoping to increase, figure out what you are doing currently and then just aim for a little bit better.
If you currently do something social approximately once a month, see if you can add something else little in.
Maybe it's having coffee with a colleague or going to an event at your house of worship or that your neighborhood association is hosting.
You don't have to become a social butterfly.
Going from once a month to twice a month is doubling your social occasions, but doesn't require making a huge change.
If you want to eat more healthfully, that doesn't mean you have to eat fish and kale at every meal.
Just aim for better.
Maybe you decide on a few healthy breakfasts that you rotate through and aim for healthy brown bag lunches twice a week or so.
You don't worry yet about everything else.
It can come in time if you want it to.
When we aim for better than before, we can make progress at a rate that is sustainable.
When goals are impossibly high for life as we actually live it, we may give up or at least feel discouraged.
So if you have a goal that you haven't made much progress on in the past, try reframing it.
You don't have to reach for perfection to make progress.
Just aim for better.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
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