The beginning of 2026 was rough, and in this episode I'm being completely transparent about it. You'll hear about my first 75 days of the year: a month-long family illness, a car accident that totaled the family vehicle, financial stress, and everything falling apart from both a health and business perspective.
If you've ever started the year with big goals only to watch life derail them, this episode is for you. I'll walk you through exactly how I rebuilt my consistency with health and fitness by incrementally adding one habit at a time until everything clicked back into place. And I'll explain why the "long game" mindset is the only one that actually sticks.
Key takeaways:
• Why setting health goals on a hard timeline sets most people up to fail
• How to rebound after life completely derails your routine
• The incremental habit-stacking approach that gets and keeps you moving
• Why "bulletproofing" your habits is the real goal of any fitness journey
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