Monica Packer

Not a magic pill.

It's not an overnight thing because overnight success is another one of the lies we've been taught and sold.

So you're still playing the long game to get towards the ideal.

You have that long game in mind over time.

But because of that, you're naturally gonna have, you're gonna be able to maintain the habit.

On low-energy days, when time is condensed, when you or a kid gets sick or when it's baseball season, which happens too often, I think, and then our whole schedules change, or it's like a seasonal shift and like your body just needs different things, you're able to still consistently have the habit.

And then when you are in momentum, it builds.

So instead of waiting for this, having this like endless bank of energy to just draw on and have this perfect habit every single day, you're able to still have this habit no matter what.

It could look like, I mean, think of any habit that you have wanted or that even you think you should have, but it's just hard to get.

And I would still start with, why do I want this?

And what is the ideal version of this that I would love to have on a day where I do have a lot of energy and the schedule's going pretty well and things are in the clear and you do cast a vision of the ideal.

So maybe we can give a specific, perhaps exercise, which I know is a very emotionally layered habit.

That's why we have to start with the why, because so much of how, especially women, we approach movement

is so layered with our own history, our own pressures in society, our own failed past attempts at it, or even just take the ways we used to be able to exercise.

And now we can't.

Okay, so I want you to, in this present moment, account for the season you're in and think of what kind of movement would be helpful and supportive to me.

Because this is gonna work against another habit bro thing.

Habits only purpose is to support us.

Habits are helpers.

It's not about a should or a metric or prescription we're supposed to meet in order to be a good person.