Yo, hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I hope you're all having a great start to the week.

This feels to me like the first Monday in January. I know it's not. Last week was very confusing to me. The Christmas

decorations were still up. The kids were still off school. People were still out of office and it just

felt like a bit of a false start. But today, I think everyone's back. We're energized. We're ready.

We are ready to do all the things. So happy Monday. I hope you're feeling good. I hope you've got

this new year, new energy that I have got today. I wanted to share a message at the start of the

week, as always, of motivation and encouragement, but also to discuss and maybe some myth-busts

some ideas around habits, healthy habits and habit formation. So I've seen quite a lot of

people talking, of course, because it's January, in the well-being space about how to make healthy

habits. Now, I think there are some common mistakes potentially that we probably all make when we

think about this. So I wanted to share a few of my ideas and maybe get you thinking about how if you are making changes,

if you are trying to create habits and routines, then hopefully this will be helpful and useful.

So first up, when we think about living a life of enjoyment, a life of fulfillment, doing things that we want to do,

you know, setting goals, living it a life in a way that we want to live, you know, setting goals, living a life in a way that

we want to live and feel. The first thing that I think of is being intentional or prioritising.

And so if I think about the things personally that I want to be intentional about and I want to

prioritize, there are usually things to do with prioritizing my health, prioritising joy and fun, learning,

relationships. And so these are things that will always require intentional action and

behaviour. Now, I think one of the mistakes that we make sometimes when we think about habits

is that we think if we create a new habit, a new

action, a new behavior, then it has to be non-negotiable. It has to be like a switch that we do

this thing or we don't do this thing. So, you know, to do something every single day and repeat

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