Simple & Sustainable
Your Monthly Wellness Newsletter from Kiss Your Food
The Little Things That Actually Matter
You know what doesn’t change your life?
Reading 42 articles about “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.”
You know what does?
Drinking your glass of water this morning.
Going for that short walk even when you didn’t feel like it.
Putting an apple in your lunch bag instead of waiting for the vending machine to tempt you.
We love to tell ourselves that learning more will fix everything.
(I see you, podcast queue.)
But here’s the cold, hard truth:
It’s really not about how much you learn or how much you know.
Nope, not at all.
It’s about what you do.
Why The “Little Things” Count So Much
I want you to picture your daily habits like compound interest.
Each small deposit stacks up.
Brushing your teeth, prepping a meal, turning off the TV at a reasonable hour . . . it all counts.
On any single day, it doesn’t look like much.
But over weeks, months, and years?
That, my friends, is where the magic happens.
You see, our brains love patterns.
When you repeat the same little behaviors, you’re carving grooves in your neural pathways that eventually become automatic.
Really! Actual grooves.
And then those little behaviors happen on autopilot.
Where you don't have to think about it at all.
They just happen.
And that’s when habits stop feeling like work and start feeling like “just what I do."
That's the ultimate goal, right?
To have these things so deeply ingrained into your routine that you don't even have to think about them?
Yes.
Yes, indeed.
3 Simple Ways to Focus on Habits in This Way:
1) Stack it onto something you already do.
Brush your teeth → Fill your water bottle
Morning coffee → Write your top 3 to-dos
Dinner cleanup → Pack tomorrow’s lunch
2) Shrink it down.
Five minutes of stretching still beats zero.
One veggie on the plate still beats none.
Writing a few words still beats staring at a blank page.
Two deep breaths still beat white-knuckling through stress.
Ten minutes outside still beats ten minutes of doom-scrolling or comparing yourself to what you see on social media.
3) Celebrate it.
Don’t wait until you’ve lost 20 pounds or run an entire marathon.
Celebrate the Tuesday you walked around the block, the Friday you said “no thanks” to the drive-thru, or the random Thursday you hit “lights out” before midnight.
It might seems silly, but the science is clear.
Those little grooves I talked about?
They get deeper much faster when they're celebrated.
Takeaway
Learning is great, but habits are built by doing.
And then doing again.
And again.
And . . . yep . . . again!
Daily, tiny, ordinary choices matter far more than big bursts of motivation or huge knowledge dumps.
Start small.
Keep going.
Smile when you catch yourself stacking those little wins - because that’s the real “better version of you” in action.
And Speaking of Action . . .
Here's Your Action Step For This Week:
Pick one small thing you’ll repeat daily.
Write it on a sticky note.
Put it where you’ll see it regularly.
Watch how fast it becomes your new normal.
(Bonus points: hit reply and tell me what it is!)
Here's to YOU and your habits!
Til next time,
Kate
P.S. If you need some accountability around your habits, maybe it's time for a coach.
Click here to book a free consultation call to see if coaching is a good step for you right now.
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