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Personalising habit building and tailoring it to your life's rhythm

Personalising habit building and tailoring it to your life's rhythm

What I've noticed #24

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Ruth Cooper-Dickson
Apr 14, 2024
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I apologise now if this post has the odd typo, I’m pretty tired. I ran 27 miles yesterday in an event and climbed a bloody long way. I started to write this on Friday and felt it was a good reminder for me to take it easy today. I will write about my relationship with running another time, especially as we head towards Mental Health Awareness Week in May.

Beautiful bluebells on my run yesterday. The perfect pause to rest on my run!

In the last week when out and about, I’ve noticed that when people are talking about needing to build new habits, they are often expecting an instantaneous result. Whether this is from wanting to change the culture of their team dynamics, start to move their body more, or shift their mindset. As a neurodivergent bod, I have the gift of picking up a new hobby/activity/habit and going all in hyper-focus, with often very little interest or dropping it completely after some time. Even though I have been running since 2002, I have years where I don’t take part in …

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