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The habit is a pause. That is the whole habit. Everything else just hangs off it.
How to make honesty a daily habit is the whole of Week 4 in one sentence, and it is smaller than you think. The habit is a pause. That is the whole habit. The calendar, the cupboard, the tower, the journal, are just things to hang the pause on.
Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 4 of Messy Midlife. Season 4 is Honesty, and this is the Monday opener of Week 4. Week 4 is Integration, and the spine word underneath is peace. Not the loud kind of peace. The ordinary, quiet, Monday morning kind.
Our focus question for the week is this. Where is honesty a practice, and not a confession. That is a different question to Week 3. Week 3 asked for a sentence. Week 4 asks for repetition. The whole of Week 4's job is to make what has become audible this month into something ordinary. Something that does not need a big announcement. Something that lives in the way a morning is arranged.
In this episode I sit with the Jenga tower metaphor from earlier in the show, in its maintenance form. This is not the tower being rebuilt. This is the tower being nudged, once a day, in passing, so that no single piece has to bear a weight it was not designed to bear. I introduce the Calendar Audit, which is Stephen Keys's tool, and which I am only naming today. He will teach it in full on Wednesday.
I also, quietly, share where I am in my own story. Six months into remission from type 2 diabetes. The total loss stated plainly, landing as anticlimax, which is the entire point.
On Wednesday, my guest is Stephen Keys, in Singapore, whose word for where he has landed is integrated, and who teaches the Calendar Audit in his own voice.
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