Just try it once…

We all know the core of self-care: eat right, get some sunshine and exercise every day, get enough sleep and avoid self-medicating with alcohol or drugs. But if you have bad eating habits, or a sedentary lifestyle, erratic sleep, or harmful coping mechanisms, now is probably not the time to try to dramatically change habits.

Instead, just commit to a short time span of change – I’ll drink juice instead of alcohol this week; I’ll walk around the block every morning. Nothing dramatic. You would be surprised how well you can fool yourself with a “just this once” mindset about good habits – it is as alluring as a “just this once” mindset about bad habits.

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