The Real Work with Maggie Sterling 10 - Why You Keep Quitting Your Habits (And How to Make Them Stick)
Oct 20, 2025
Struggling to stick to your habits? It’s all about mindset, not discipline. Chasing perfection and arrival points creates pressure and burnout. Instead, view habits as self-alignment with who you’re becoming. Consider course corrections over rigid streaks and learn to see failures as information rather than shame. Dive into your identity by asking who you want to be and create meaningful habits. Embrace the boring, repetitive choices that lead to transformation, and choose habits that align intentionally with your best self.
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There Is No Habit Finish Line
- There is no final arrival point for habits; they are ongoing and require adjustment over time.
- Seeing habits as a continuous process reduces pressure and prevents burnout.
Use Habits As Course Corrections
- Use habits as course corrections to steer you from who you were toward who you want to become.
- Reframe slips as information, not moral failure, and get back on course quickly.
Boring Habits Anchor Your Identity
- Many helpful habits are boring, grounding, and reconnect you to how you want to live.
- Those mundane actions cumulatively produce the person you become and where your energy goes.
