Two people discuss self-care for overworked people. Set expectations so low you can't fail: meditate in bed using the Calm app for one or two sessions before getting up, which cuts snoozing and improves sleep. Mel Robbins' Five-Second Rule helps with quick decisions.
If someone wanted to get started in self care. So imagine it's someone that's super stressed out, has been going, you know, 120 hours a week, not seeing their family, not taking care of themselves. Has something come into their lives where they're like, okay, this needs to change for me would be like two or three things to just get started in taking care of yourself, like habits or, you know, actions to keep it kind of action focused.
So I think the people who tend to run their lives at that pace have very high expectations. And so one of the things is to get a new habit. If you lower the bar so low that it's going to be impossible to fail, do that. So for me, I meditate in my bed and it solves two problems. Number one, when the alarm goes off, I immediately turn on my Calm app and listen to one or two. Now, it used to be one. Now it's regularly two meditations each morning before I even get out of my bed. And I no longer snooze. I used to snooze, and that wreaks havoc on our sleep. If you've ever read the Mel Robin's other book, the Five Second Rule.
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Talks about how snoozing really wreaks havoc on your sleep. So don't snooze. So it solves two problems. I get to. I get to stay in my nice warm bed for another 15 to 20 minutes and I stopped snoozing. And then each day, by the time I get up out of bed, I've already gotten one healthy thing checked off. Does it have to be to get the full benefits of meditation? They say it should be about 12 minutes a day. But even two minutes a day is better than zero minutes. So what can you afford to do? Everybody can take probably five minutes out of their day, right? Carve that out and just add that one tiny little thing that's so easy to do and you're not going to fail.
