30 Best Selling Author Gretchen Rubin Discusses Improving Your Habits - Part 2

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Best-selling author and longtime InForm Fitness client Gretchen Rubin joins us for Part 2 of our discussion regarding the process of developing healthy habits.
If you are interested in losing some weight, gaining muscle, eating healthier, or even strengthening your relationships, Gretchen’s got ya covered with brilliant suggestions as to how and when is the best time to change a habit's trajectory.
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30 Gretchen Rubin Discusses Improving Your Habits_Pt 2 Transcript

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SPEAKERS

Gretchen Rubin, Tim Edwards, Sheila, Adam, Mike

Gretchen Rubin 00:05

To like an uncanny degree, we're very, very influenced just by how easy something is. And so for something like working out, you want to make it as easy as possible. And I've heard from many people who say that they sleep in their workout clothes, so they don't have to get dressed in the morning. Just one thing that you can do. But again, like if it's much easier for you and your schedule to work out at a time, that's something we're thinking about, like the idea that you should do it first thing in the morning, it's like, well, if it's easier for you to do it at lunchtime, then you should do what works for you because it's like you'll stick to it better if it's convenient.

Tim Edwards 00:42

Inform nation. Welcome to Episode 30 of the inform fitness podcast, and part two of our interview with Best Selling Author Gretchen Rubin. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network and a client of inform fitness for the past year and a half or so at the time of this recording. And in less than a minute, we will be joined by the founder of inform fitness himself, Adam Zickerman will also be joined by the co owner of the Toluca Lake Burbank location, Sheila melody and the GM of the Manhattan location. Mike Rogers. All right, so who's in for developing better habits that result in positive outcomes? Well, we all are, you wouldn't have subscribed to this podcast if you weren't. However, as we all know, sometimes it's difficult to perhaps kick a bad habit, or to start a healthy new one. Whether you want to lose some weight or gain some muscle, eat healthier and even strengthen your relationships. Gretchen Rubins got you covered with some brilliant suggestions as to how and equally is important when to change your habits trajectory. And this episode is about twice as long as our normal episode. So let's get right to it. Here's part two of our interview with Best Selling Author Gretchen Rubin.

Adam 01:53

So Gretchen you talk about these tendencies, these four tendencies. And then you start talking about if you're going to start somewhere, you might as well start with some of the big ones. Yeah, the big habits, I guess, like almost like a like a Maslow's hierarchy type of thing. You know, the basic foundation, you say, if you're going to start working on some, some habits, some foundation, you call them the foundational habits, it's best to start with a couple of the key ones like like dealing with your sleep. Alright, dealing with moving exercise, you call it move? And then also what you eat and drink.

Gretchen Rubin 02:27

Yeah,

Adam 02:28

getting control of your nutrition. And then of course, another one, the fourth one that you call unclutter.

Gretchen Rubin 02:33

Yeah.

Adam 02:34

Which seems to be the big that to me, that was a big one for me, because I you know, I would love to deal with my my tendency to clutter. But I when I was when I was reading that section, it, it just jumped out at me that the three pillars of our exercise program, high intensity exercise is very similar. We say, you know, to really, the foundation of a fitness plan should deal with exercise, it should deal with rest, like you say sleep and nutrition. So three out of your four foundational habits are very parallel to each other. Yeah. So I found that to be pretty interesting. And I agree. I mean, like, God, if you can only get a handle on sleep, right?

Gretchen Rubin 03:13

Yeah Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that you're exactly right. I think there's a lot of agreement on the fact that these are like the foundations because because they are, you know, just just super, super important so that they come up over and over again. And the reason that they come up, I think is that they are what they're important to haven't changed generally is they're sort of, if you don't have control of these areas of your life, you it's very hard to have self command. It's very hard to just have the energy and the kind of self mastery that you need to make other kinds of changes. So you might say to yourself, Well, what I really need to do is to start this side business, but if you're exhausted all the time, and you know, and you just feel like it's sluggish and you have to take a nap every day three, and you're surrounded by a mess. It just feels harder to do that. Because you but once you get enough sleep you get some exercise you're eating and drinking. Right and you kind of and then the unclutter. I have to say most people don't point to unclutter as part of these foundations. They just talk about the three. But I have found that over and over people say that they do feel the sense of kind of energy and possibility that comes from just getting rid of junk always does something there's some tie I don't understand it really it doesn't really see...