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The other week the family and I finally got to go on our twice rescheduled (Corona innit) mini break in a motor-home that we’d got my wife for her 40th birthday earlier this year.
On the Saturday morning I returned the van to where we’d hired it from.
And got back in my car.
Compared to our other car, this one has relatively high seats.
But, having spent four days driving a motor-home where I was another 3 foot higher, it felt ridiculously low.
For about twenty minutes I felt like I was sat in a hole.
Too low almost.
Like I couldn’t safely see what was going on.
Even though I’d driven that car fine for years.
After that twenty minutes or so though it felt fine.
Quickly back to normal.
It was the change that was hard.
The adjustment.
The actual new thing was no harder than the old thing.
Easier really.
But the change from something you’re used to to something you’re not is the tricky bit.
It’s the same anytime we change cars to some degree.
Just much more noticeable here.
And it’s the same with any changes we make.
To our food for example.
There’s plenty of ways to eat to lose weight and improve health that are no more actual work than what we may have been doing before.
At a most basic level just eating less (reducing portion sizes) can only be less effort than eating more.
Or there are plenty of tactical swaps we can make that are no more effort.
But they feel it.
To start with.
Due to that change.
From what we’re used to.
When we get through that it becomes our new normal.
Quicker than we might realise.
But, we just need to get through that.
We wouldn’t give up on the new car because it felt weird to drive – we know we’d soon get used to it.
The changes to eating are adjusted to just as quickly from a ‘reps’ perspective.
It’s just we get those reps in quicker when driving.
Dozens of gear changes, mirror glances and pedal presses in a matter of minutes.
The dozens of different choices around our food will only take a few dozen reps to get used to.
But that’s spread over a few weeks (it’s part of the reason why we do an eight week challenge to begin with – a free day or week is pretty much the right time to put someone off. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting for more info on that).
Ultimately though, there’s only one way to get used to them.
And giving up and going back to what we did before sure ain’t it.
Much love,
Jon ‘a hole’ Hall
