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Why good habits feel impossible to maintain

I keep starting meditation practices and workout routines and they last maybe two weeks before I give up and I'm tired of disappointing myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The expectation that change should feel good immediately rather than understanding it as a gradual rewiring of deeply ingrained patterns.

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“Where Are You with Long-term thinking vs. short-term thinking?”

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