Michelle Segar

I've often said that if you want to do a behavior long term, you need this weird mix of stubbornness and also extreme flexibility.

The stubbornness is like, I'm going to keep doing this.

This is important.

I'm going to figure it out.

And then the extreme flexibility speaks for itself, right?

I have to adapt what I'm doing on a regular basis.

It does.

I agree.

I think that is a really good and important point about developing menus and choices.

And I think some of what happens over time, at least with me and movement, that being the primary thing, is that I've improvised so many times now.

And I have a life that resists any kind of context.

I feel like I'm always somewhere else, somewhere different.

There's just a lot of that.

I'm choosing that.

The way I choose to live my life is one in which there's not a lot of time to be really steady in the same place doing the same thing.

Some of that was for years, Ginny and I going back and forth from Atlanta to take care of her mom to Columbus to take care of my mom.

Every two weeks, we were somewhere different.

What that has caused me to do is to be flexible enough times that I kind of have my own little menu.

Now that I know, and another thing I was thinking about as we were talking, I was thinking a little bit about like planning and I was thinking about planning work and, and what I've realized over time is that when I'm in a good place.

I don't need to spend a lot.