🧘 Hi Everyone, I hope you are all having a great week!

Here is a quick summary of what happened in my week/what I learnt

Habits are an amazing thing

They rule our day and almost control our lives without us even needing to think

One habit which I am totally addicted to at the moment is everyday as soon as I wake up I check my phone and go through my notifications. (I wouldn’t say I am alone in this habit) I would say this is what the majority of the population tend to do each morning as they wake up.

However, as James Clear explains in his book “Atomic habits” have a major impact on our lives as habits help to set up a pattern for our lives.

Example

Think of someone that gets a donut for breakfast everyday on their way to work. The singular donut won’t impact their lives each day however, the accumulation of a donut a day for one year or even a year will end up having an epic impact. This might be easier to explain financially, if a donut costs $5 it won’t have that much of an impact on the first day. After 6 months it would cost, $912.5, after a year that would be $1825 spent on donuts. That means if you held off buying a donut each day you could go on an extra holiday each year.

Visualising it all

Credit: jamesclear.com

How this relates to exercise

It is important to understand that exercise whether that is running, cycling, swimming or something else all has a massive benefit to your lives. The individual impact of one workout won’t have this impact, as it is the accumulated benefit of all of these workouts combined over a long period of time which has a amazing benefit to your life. This is one of the reasons why exercising on a regular basis has a extremely positive impact on your life!

Do you believe habits are useful?

Reply back to this email I would love to hear your thoughts on habits to hear if you believe or don’t believe that habits are useful!

That is it for this week!

hope you all have a great week

Thanks 🙏

Arthur ⚙️