186 - I Lost My Streak At Day 556

Let's listen in as Amy get's real with her loss and what she's
doing afterwards. Losses are inevitable. It's what you do after
that defines you! 



This latest episode is about how to overcome personal setbacks
and challenges. Amy shares her personal story of breaking her
556-day  activity streak, discussing how investing in
long-going streaks can be a challenge, but necessary to creating
a future self that one can be proud of. Amy also discusses the
importance of being okay with setbacks, accepting that they
happen, and getting right back on track. Overall, the episode
provides practical strategies and insights for overcoming
adversity, pushing oneself through hard times, and creating a
better self.


 


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Episode Transcript:


I do believe that it should burn. It should stink. You know, my
kids almost cried for me because they know how much, you know, I
keep my streaks and you know, I like that. I like that. I'm
invested into it. I like that it hurt, you know? But the key is,
Hurt only to the point where I don't stay in this shame or guilt
place, and that causes me to not wanna show up for myself again.


You know, I will say there's an art to that in that I've had a
lot of losses over the last several years of tracking DACs that
has helped me to be okay with, okay, well tomorrow is another day
and I can get right back on.


What are you doing to create your dream life or your best self?
Why do we see some thrive through challenges while others
struggle? Welcome to Fett, a podcast where I talk about the main
FS in my life that have helped me in creating my best self faith,
family, forgiveness, food, fitness, and formula. Hi. My name is
Amy Ledin, and most would say that I've had my fair share of
struggles, whether it was placing my baby for adoption at 18,
facing my marriage ending affair, or battling stage four cancer
for almost seven years.


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I cannot believe the day came, but I had to come on the podcast
and unpack it here and just kind of go over my big, huge loss
after 556 days. That's right, 556 days of a streak.  and I
broke it. This was, so I have two big, long going streaks right
now. I mean, I have other ones that are, you know, probably close
to like a hundred days, but nothing like my water streak and my.


activity streak. So I have, you know, my activity one is that I
have to do no less than 20 minutes of activity every day of my
life. Like whether this is stretching or, you know, ideally
movement. I'd say 95% of the times, 99% of the time, this is me
walking. But, um, I wanted to put, you know, any type of activity
because there's been times where I have had.


You know, um, minor surgeries or things like that. And so
stretching or things just to get that in and see the power of my
activity. And then my other long going one, which is still going,
is my one gallon of plain water, you know. Um, it's been going
now for, you know, I 500 and, let's see, probably 65 days now,
but getting up here to Canada, um, I did a podcast, just I think
the most recent one where, you know, I was struggling.


It's been a struggle. It was a challenge and. So I wanted to
share this because there's many times, you know, when we break
our promises to ourselves in that, honestly it's just a slip of,
you know, we forget, it's not maybe a, a habit yet that we've
invested in. And so it's not, we're not on autopilot. And then
other times it may be out of our control, you know?


But then there's these times where, , we, we know we should do
it, but we don't. And so I always like to dive into that as to,
you know, why we don't, you know, for me, um, if I'm reflecting,
you know, I, uh, was, I, I could have gone, I hate the cold here,
as you know, we're in Canada and we got up here and it was, uh,
still winter and the cold just makes me miserable, but it's not
like I haven't done it before.


So, you know, I could have, you know, put on a bunch of layers
and gone out, but, The reality was I was already in a head space
where I was not feeling good about myself. Whether it was I was
feeling sorry for myself or you know, whatever it may be, I was
not feeling good. And when we do not feel good about ourselves,
we just don't show up for ourselves.


Because the truth is when I got into bed that night, you know,
cuz someone would be like, how could you forget? Well, I had put
it off all day because I hate the cold and, you know, um, wasn't
feeling good. I wasn't really happy with our situation here and
you know, just again, feeling sorry for myself, whatever.


Um, but. I got in bed and so it's already late and I'm like, oh
my gosh, I didn't walk. Now I could have, I'm totally capable of,
you know, bundling up and going out. I really technically at that
point, should have just even gotten on the floor and stretched. ,
but I didn't want to, I mean, that's the reality. I was like, I
don't want to, I was fighting my best self and you know, my best
self didn't win.


You know, the next morning I was obviously very upset and you
know, at first Eric's like, you know, I don't think it's good. Be
this upset over it. And I'm like, I disagree because I feel like
anything that you are striving or chasing, you know, you're
striving for or chasing like, like this, it has to sting a little
bit.


If you don't get it, you know? It was a motto that Craig
Valentine used, which was high intention, low attachment. I mean,
that's your goal is you wanna have like all the intention to be
winning and the low attachment in that, you know, hey, you don't
want it to like make you stay down in the lull. Forever.


And so that's kind of the key. But I do believe that it should
burn. It should stink. You know, my kids almost cried for me
because they know how much, you know, I, I keep my streaks and
you know, I like that. I like that I'm invested into it. I like
that it hurt, you know, but the key is, Hurt only to the point
where I don't stay in this shame or guilt place, and that causes
me to not wanna show up for myself again.


You know, I will say there's an art to that in that I've had a
lot of losses over the last several years of tracking DACs that
has helped me to. Be okay with. Okay, well tomorrow is another
day and I can get right back on. You know, sucky thing about
having a long streak like this, I'll be honest, is I don't hit a
new, a new place for another couple years and that sounds crazy.


And hey, You don't need to be tracking these things. This is
just, I, I'm, I'm, my brain works well on gamification and I do
love the power of seeing this, and this has been something that
has pulled me along to make sure I get activity in. The cool
thing is I know that this is a lifestyle habit for me, so I got
right back on and I'm tracking it again and really trying to even
show my children the power of.


You know what? Yeah, it sucked and I was, I was bummed about it
and stuff, but I got right back on, started tracking again
because I'm confident that I will, you know, beat it again. So if
you are someone that, you know, maybe you've had that loss and
maybe you stay down in the dumps longer, you know, this is your
reminder that, you know, failing and, and losing and having these
things can really be turned into learning opportunities.


And I don't think it's a bad thing if you. Are hurt by the loss
and you feel sad about it or you're upset. I just think it's
important to find that fine line between staying in the dumps and
shaming yourself and having this condemnation. Don't shame
yourself in that way instead of like conviction in that.


Yep. , I, you know what? I need to show up for myself and this is
how I do it and I'm gonna get right back on. So bummed about it,
but hey, you know what? I'm continuing with my water streak. I'm
right back on the walking one and you know, I've got a couple
others that are in the hundreds. So I hope you are, uh, tracking
your wins.


There's a big power in that. And you know, one of the apps I use,
I mentioned a lot on here, is Streaks. It is a paid app. I think
I paid like five bucks for it, but it will track up. 18 of your
habits. It even will track the timing. You know, like if you go
and track it right away, like how often do you perform this habit
at this time, or, you know, it gives you your streaks, it gives
you like, you know, just everything, all the data on it.


It's pretty awesome if you really like to, uh, gamify your things
and I just hope you're having a great week and things are much
better in Canada. Have more content up soon.


Okay. I'm on a mission, as you know, if you've been following
along, I have a goal to be a top 100 podcast, and it's less about
that top 100 and more about, I wanna make an impact. I want more
people to hear effort and learn from all the mistakes that I've
made along with me bringing on really special guests for you.


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