Michelle Segar

Okay, so I think there's two things within that that I kind of want to pull apart.

The first is the should.

So I go to my doctor and my doctor says, look, your blood sugar is so high, you're likely on your way to diabetes.

And oh, by the way, your cholesterol is really high.

I recommend that you exercise.

So there's a should there.

How do I convert that should into a want to?

I want to leave out what the exercise is right now, but how do I get to a want to around the thing as a whole?

It does.

I mean, I think there's two things in there for me, and these are the things that have made exercise easier to do.

I'm not going to say easy because we can talk about habits later and how complex behaviors are rarely habitual is exactly those two things.

First, I recognize like I'm going to feel better quickly from this.

It's not that it's for my health 50 years from now.

It's because I'm going to feel better quickly.

I mean, that's one big thing.

that I did.

And then the other was to actually really, after I was exercising and I felt good, was to spend time really trying to notice that and bring it on board.

Like, okay, I did that.

It felt good.

Now, the thing that remains semi-mysterious to me, and you could probably talk to this a little bit, is that you would think after having done this for