God, Ar'm Sam Wood, and your motivational moment for this week. It's very, very simple. It's about overcoming a difficulty with just three tries. And you've probably heard me say on this show before, particularly when it comes to workouts, if you're not really feeling on that day, just do five minutes.
And something I say to people I help in an excise sense if they've lost their way a little bit, if they've lost their momentum, is often you're only three workouts in three days away from getting back on track. Then I was thinking, it's really interesting in my sort of you know, late thirties, early forties, where I've gone back and actually done stuff that I'd done in my twenties and it hadn't stuck. And I blamed the thing, but it was me, you know, it was my attitude.
It was kind of this. I didn't give it. I didn't give it a good enough crack, I guess, is my point. And and now I regret it. From way back to music lessons in my teenage years, to yoga in my twenties, and any type of meditation mindfulness that I was on again, off again, but never on again for more than one or two tries in my thirties and the fact that I do these now and they're making my life so much better. But I do admit the first time meditation or yoga, to use those two examples, stuck.
The first thing that I thought was, why didn't I just give this a proper go ten years ago, fifteen years ago when I was first introduced to them. So that sort of led to what I wanted to chat to about today, just three tries. I speak to people a lot, and I recommend, whether it's cold showers or ice bars or saunas or getting into running or whatever, it is, things that I know have made my life infinitely better. And they come back to me, no, mate, gave it to try, not for me? Now? How long?
For seven seconds? And I'm like, okay, well, let's let's last two minutes in the culture and let's do it three days in a row. And if you still feel that way, I can handle that. Some things just aren't for some people. I'm not saying everything that I do should be what you do. That's the last thing I'd ever say to you. But whether it's a new thing or whether it's something that perhaps you've tried in the past,
and failed, and I hate that word failed. But let's say tried in the past and it hasn't stuck and it was more of a you thing than another thing thing. The thinking I want you to identify two. So I want you to try a new one and I want you to bring back an old one, because if you do something three times over let's say six months, once every two months, that's probably a bit stretched and you're not necessarily going to get the stickiness. So let's say,
let's put some boundaries around it. It's got to be at least three tries in two weeks or les, so there's no more than four or five days between getting this particular thing done again and again and again. And that is the rule. So my task for you would life listeners. What's something new that you've been thinking about giving a crack two for a long time now that you're going to give at least three tries to I'll
say at least three. If you think it might take four or five for it to stick, I'm happy for you to go there, but it can't be any less than three. And what's one that perhaps you've done in the past. We might be going back six months. We might be going back fifteen years. That's up to you. You will know the answer to what that thing is. I want you to bring it back. I want you to give it a proper go at least three tries,
and then I want to hear from you. I would absolutely love to know what you have tried, and don't tell me on the third try. Maybe wait till where you've done it for a few weeks and it really is starting to feel like a good habit is beginning to form. Bring it back, get it part of your routine, and then share it with me so I can share it with all of our listeners, because I'd love to hear your stories.