1436: Let's separate fact from fiction
Today's episode is all about fact checking the stories we tell ourselves, and my experience of being called out by my Fitbit.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers and a very happy Tuesday to you. Now, I don't tend to be a particularly competitive person, but the person I am very competitive with is myself. Ages ago my Fitbit broke and I noticed that I'm just not doing as much walking anymore. So we're currently in Germany. I'm walking a lot more than I usually do and I saw one on a really good offer. So I am reacquainted with tracking my steps. But here's where it gets interesting. And actually nothing to do with walking and steps.
So something I've tended to give myself a really hard time about is my energy levels. If you asked me how much I sleep at night, I would say probably a good nine hours, if not more. Yet I could always go for a nap. So one of the things my Fitbit does is it tracks my sleep as well as a step goal. I've set up a sleep goal. Like I said, I get competitive with myself and lo and behold, I have not made it to 8 hours sleep in the past week and a half since I've had it. Often the numbers don't lie and I've become rather willfully ignorant of just how shit my sleep has been because I have been indulging in what many of us know as revenge bedtime procrastination. And it is rare that I actually get to sleep before 2am Yesterday we were talking about identifying patterns and and using them as a source of information and curiosity rather than yet another thing to give ourselves a hard time about.
And it got me thinking about the stories we tell ourselves versus the data. The story I've been telling myself about sleeping too much is wildly inaccurate and really does give me something to work with. And for me that's what a lot of this is about. It's about taking our power back, making intentional choices where we can and choosing ourselves. Now I know things like trackers and different ways of logging goals and logging different things can work differently for different people. And for some people knowing the numbers might actually cause more anxiety than it does calmness. So really go with what works for you here, because my invitation is to think about something that maybe you've been wanting to solve or something you're struggling with and just double checking that the story lines up with what is actually happening. If you see it as a bit of an experiment and just go on a bit of a fact finding mission, you might just find that this is a great way of working with yourself rather than opening 22 new tabs trying to figure out what is quote wrong with you.
So that is my invitation for you this Tuesday. And I look forward to being back with you tomorrow. I'll see you then.
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