Michelle Segar

And you go on vacation and you're not really going to be able to do it.

But what you decide to do instead is that you'll just do two sets of push-ups and crunches on those days instead.

And the analogy he makes is he's like, it's kind of like a houseplant.

He's like, when you're home, you can really give the plant all the attention it wants.

But in these other moments, what you're doing is you're keeping the plant alive.

And I think that's really valuable because oftentimes people will be like, well, who cares?

Two sets of push-ups and crunches, that's not going to shape my future outcome very much.

And you're right.

It won't.

But what it will potentially do is enable you to continue with the behavior over time.

And that's the value sometimes for me of a little bit of something being better than a lot of nothing.

It's not that the thing I do, the smaller thing that I do, is beneficial in and of itself.

Although it is.

It is, right.

It's also part of a bigger picture.

Right.

And that bigger picture is that I'm flexible enough that I keep doing something to the best of my ability versus what feels like start, stop, start, stop, start, stop.

Yes.

It's much more gradual, but it keeps the momentum going.

Agreed.