Good morning daily peppers and a very happy Thursday to you. Now around here on the Daily Pep, I'm always aware that when we're diving into things like the need for rest and why it's actually productive, why aiming for progress over perfection is really important, and why the showing up counts. I'm really aware that these are things that we already intellectually know. I know that you know these things, but it is so hard to go from knowing something intellectually to knowing it in your bones and taking action from it. I like to think of it a bit like head knowledge and heart knowledge. Head knowledge is that we know that rest is really important and it actually makes us more productive. But often, it doesn't always translate into heart knowledge in terms of often we are acting in complete opposites of that even though we know that, for example, rest is really productive. Now this is something that we all struggle with, and this is one of the biggest reasons I started the daily pep.
Around here, we love personal development. We know the things that we could be doing, but it's so hard to do them. And these are basically daily reminders of let's actually do the thing, not just know the thing. And today, I really want to encourage you to think about one thing that you completely understand on an intellectual level that it would make a huge difference, but you really struggle to do. Maybe it's about showing up even though you're scared. Maybe it's about putting yourself back on your to do list because everything else tends to get done, but you completely forget to look after yourself. Or maybe it's about realizing that your self worth is never on the line and that the things you do do not have a direct reflection of your value as a human being. Whatever it is for you, today's challenge is to really have a think about one thing that could make a big difference.
Chances are you've got the book. You've listened to the podcast. You've got the tools to start implementing some of this stuff, but it can seem really overwhelming when there's so much stuff to try out. But today, I just want you to commit to trying one thing. It could look like stopping before you're exhausted. It could look like aiming for 70% rather than a 100%. Or it could do with using something like Mel Robbins' 5 second rule, where you count backwards from 5 and you just make yourself do that thing that you've been meaning to do, that you want to do, that you just can't get yourself to do. So have a think about the different things that you've been learning, listening to, reading about lately, and just try one of them on for size.
It's that whole Rome wasn't built in a day, but you have to start somewhere. And let's start getting this head knowledge into heart knowledge and seeing what a difference it can make. And let's not beat ourselves up along the way because this shit is hard. So pick something, give it a go, experiment, and see what happens. Have a fabulous rest of your Thursday, and I'll see you back here bright and early as always tomorrow morning.