Michelle Segar

I would always tell clients of mine who were going on vacation, I was like, well, what are you going to do on vacation?

And they'll be like, well, I'm just going to keep doing the thing exactly right.

And I'm like, okay, well, you can choose that.

You can also choose to simply say, I'm not going to do it during this window.

What I think is the more important piece is that we are making a conscious decision.

And I'm like, I would much rather have you say, you know what, I'm just going to let it go this week.

Then try and do something that you're not going to be successful at doing and you end up feeling bad about the whole time.

Like there's no point in that.

Just say, I'm not going to do it.

And if you do any, wonderful.

And then here's the other like lived experience thing I see is that transition back in is so important, right?

That is where I see a lot of like consistency become unconsistent.

Is that when anything changes, vacation, whatever the thing is, right?

And this maybe we can talk about moving to habits a little bit here, right?

Because the idea is that we will do these things and they will become so automatic.

We will always do them.

Talk about what habit means in a more strict sense.

Yeah, I see why we are seduced by the idea of habits.

I even used that word in programs that I taught for a while, because what we want is something to become automatic so that it's not difficult to do ever again.

And we just do it.