A Year to Change: Conversations with women on choice, connections, and clarity in midlife

All kinds of things get in the way of making changes. I am confused by why I can’t really get to make the commitment to exercise more “sticky.” We talked about commitments and being successful at making them to others but not so good about making them for our selves.

I regularly encourage clients to tie a new habit to an old one as one way to kick start a new one. Sometimes that works. But maybe it’s more important to tie the new habit to a whole life. Leslie says she read that Twyla Tharp, the dancer and author of The Creative Life, starts her day with exercise but it’s part of the whole of her life. It’s not just a habit. It’s part of who she is and how she prepares for her life work.

I’m going to reflect on that this week. Think about how exercise is part of my whole life. What would I get if that were true? What would be different or easier? Or at the very least, more fun?

What about for you?
–Leslie and Kerch

 

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