Adam Markel recommends starting with conscious breathing before you react, then picking one tiny habit across mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual life. A five-minute stretch, a walk, a yoga class. The smallest commitment you'll actually keep compounds over time.
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They release their breath. Breath is so key here, folks. We take it for granted. Just a few conscious breaths before you respond to somebody who's irking you. I'm going to go over a little bit of what that looks like in a second because it's these four different areas we're talking about, the mental, the emotional, the physical and spiritual, of course. And the idea is that you create a list of ideas for small changes, those Dave Brailsford minuscule little changes that we want to aggregate together so we can create a compound effect over time. So for me, I'll give you two examples from the physical side, just wanting to move my body a bit more. Five minutes of stretching midday, attend a yoga class, take a 25 minute walk. So what's the most infinitesimally small change that I could commit to? Well, five minutes to stretch the middle of the day.