Have you ever discovered a great idea, started with every intention of sticking with it...and then watched everyday life get in the way?

In this episode of Growing Plants, Growing People, Kristian and Daniel explore why struggling to maintain a new habit, goal or personal-development practice doesn’t necessarily mean you lack commitment or discipline.

Every attempt to change has to compete for three limited resources: our time, our physical energy and our mental energy.

Through the story of Dr Shad Helmstetter’s own experience with goal setting, along with a rather familiar gardening analogy, we discover why even a good idea can gradually become another chore — and why having the right tools can make all the difference.

In this episode you’ll discover:

• Why even good ideas can become difficult to maintain when everyday life gets in the way
• Why time, physical energy and mental energy all influence our ability to stick with something
• Why struggling to maintain a new practice doesn’t necessarily mean you lack commitment or discipline
• The three important requirements for a personal-growth approach that is going to survive the realities of everyday life:
  • It needs to be simple
  • It needs to be easy to use
  • And when you put it into practice, it needs to work
    
    

Perhaps the question isn’t:

“Why can’t I stick with it?”

Perhaps there’s a better question:

“Am I using the right tool?”

Free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Worksheet

We’ve created a free reflective worksheet to accompany this episode and help you explore how these ideas apply to your own life.

Use it to consider the things you’ve tried to introduce or maintain, what may have made them difficult to stick with, and whether the tools or approaches you’ve been using are realistic for the time, physical energy and mental energy available to you.

Download your free Growing Plants, Growing People Reflective Worksheet here:

Why Good Ideas Are So Hard to Stick With Reflective Worksheet

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Listen now and continue the journey as we explore how lasting change really happens.

Growing Plants, Growing People — because the principles that help gardens flourish are often the very same principles that help people grow.