THE WEEKLY PAGE 📝 No. 238

Notes on consistency + what to read, watch, listen to and enjoy...

We’re currently in that “fresh, new year” phase and the pressure of it can make us dive head-first into a bunch of new habits or routines.

And while I’m all about building new habits, the key to long-term success is to do it slowly.

It’s easy to feel like you need to do something every day for it to matter or “count”. Or to feel like a habit isn’t established if you’re only doing it once a week…or once a month. But that’s not the only way consistency works —- and some habits aren’t meant to be done daily!

Here are a few quick notes on consistency:

✅ You can make consistent progress without doing something *every* day.
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📅 Doing something 1x or 2x a week for 52 weeks results in more consistent progress throughout the year than doing something 5x a week for a month or two.
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⭐ Start small and choose what is doable for you *currently*, then adjust as needed.

This is true whether you are trying to eat better, move more, post regularly on Instagram, be present with your family, etc etc etc. If it’s a habit you want to stick to, you have to meet yourself where you’re at.

Be realistic. Start small. Adjust as needed.
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You’ve got this,

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FIRST MONTHLY REVIEW DAY OF 2025! ✅

Join me this Monday, January 6th, from 9-10:30 AM CST for our first Monthly Review Day of the Year! This is a designated time for monthly planning, goal setting, and habit formation along with 45-minutes of silent co-working followed by a Q+A. Learn more and RSVP here.

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📚 READ: I started reading The 5 Resets by Aditi Nerurkar this week and am really enjoying it! The book specifically talks about the pandemic and the collective trauma that many of us experienced during that time and how it has impacted our stress levels — which I found really interesting. It also addresses burnout and identifies 5 different ways to help your brain and body recover. Learn more about the book here. (TW for some general mentions of weight loss goals and weight loss).

📺 WATCH: You are cordially invited to the wedding of Miss Annie Banks! Do I watch Father of the Bride every year on January 6th? Yes I do. Should you also make this a tradition at your house? Probably. Watch the trailer here.

🎧 LISTEN: I’ve always known I’m a bit of a type-a control freak, but this episode helped me realize that it is human nature to desire control — it’s simply a survival instinct (although, some of us feel it more than others). Discussing her new book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins explains the art of letting things go — and I definitely needed to hear some of it. Her explanation for why it’s hard to get others (ex. teenage children) to do what we want made so much sense.

🧡 ENJOY: We’ve had a snowy couple days in Copenhagen and although all the snow has melted in the city thanks to blue skies + sunshine, the temperatures look like they’ll hover right around freezing through the weekend — which means I had to hunt down a cozy pasta recipe and landed on this one for dinner tonight: Spicy Tomato Basil Shells with Whipped Ricotta by Half Baked Harvest. Update: Made it and ate it — its delicious and I love the idea of serving pasta on top of ricotta (so #fancy!) but in the future I’d use a simpler noodle. It was so hard to cook the shells evenly without them falling apart. Maybe there’s a secret I don’t know about?