Lisa Murphy leads a discussion on building habits that stick. The group covers small, hard changes like waking 30 minutes earlier, why rituals take about 100 days to take hold, and how your brain resists change like withdrawal. Systems beat hope.
And keep you on that schedule. Keep, keep giving yourself small hard things like get up a half an hour earlier, get your feet on the floor a half an hour earlier, because that's a small hard thing that doesn't impact your day all that much because if you're still tired in the morning, you could go to bed a half an hour earlier the night before. Right. So the truth is, there's an easy fix to that one. But the challenge was to create structure. And did you find in those few weeks that you had overall more energy and more productivity?
Not really. I mean it was maybe 50, 50, because I felt a lot of like quite a few days where I was just like, like struggling.
Struggling because you just didn't want to, or struggling because your body was actually shutting down on you.
My, my, it felt like my brain was like not on board. I was either either too tired or like fuzzy brained. And, and it could have just been a coincidence. Like, it's not like that was the.
Cause of it, but it's actually not a coincidence that was the cause of it. And that is why it takes a hundred days to create a ritualized habit. Because that's your brain fighting back and.
Going, oh, but this is, Remember how it used to be and how this is the nice area. And remember when you didn't have to do these things?
So that is, and that's like, you know, drug addicts have to go through the DTS and their brain is like.
Remember when you did the drugs and you felt everything was easier and you weren't puking and having tremors?
Right. That was your DTS fighting with you. And, and what happens is we have a tendency to be like, ah, I don't feel good.
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