A chat with my friend Pete Kadushin about the ‘Fresh Start Effect,’ where transitions can motivate new behaviors. Discover how mindfulness and intentionality can help you navigate life’s pivotal moments.
We began our conversation by discussing how significant moments, such as the New Year, serve as “mental accounting periods” that prompt us to reassess our goals and behaviors. Then talked about how moments of transition provide a psychological clean slate, making it easier to break old habits and adopt new ones. A sense of beginning again, and the freedom that comes with it, can help unlock frozen energy inside the mind and body and fuel change.
“I think we have a huge accountability crisis right now, both personally and socially. We don’t really spend enough time slowing down to really take account and then do that extra hard piece of being really honest. But that’s freakin’ hard! I don’t want to be honest with myself that I’m not doing the work that I should be doing.
Jeff Siegel
To do all of these things requires courage and vulnerability. But at the end of the day, it really is the only way. Because otherwise we’re just deluding ourselves.”