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Your Perfect Expectations Is The Problem

Perfection is one of the main obstacles to forming habits. Our hopeful idea of how it will go, and then our disappointment and frustration with ourselves when it doesn’t go that way.

The idea that we should be super consistent and perfect in our habit attempts …  derails us.

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Whenever I have a problem I just sing, then I realize my voice is worse than my problem

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