Regular listeners of the Potential Psychology Podcast would know that in 2023 I published very few podcast episodes, because life and all of the messy ‘middle-ness’ that I was feeling, which may have been a post-pandemic adjustment situation or may have been something else, meant that I didn’t find the time or the focus for podcasting.

There was something else at play too. After five years and over 100 episodes, almost entirely interviews with experts in being human and human experience, I felt the poddie needed a little refresh.

Many moons ago I wrote a series called ‘One thing I learned this week’. That series is now lost to the annals of time and iterations of my website that I never took the time to back up, but my curiosity and penchant for reflective practice remains. I love to learn, to reflect on what I’ve learned and to integrate that learning into my life and this week I learned something that I can’t believe I haven’t learned before, in all of my 51.16 years.

Like most of us, I have plans and intentions for the New Year. Two weeks in and I’ve managed to:

Write something almost every day ✅

Eat a nutritious breakfast most mornings ✅

Walk for at least 2.5km each day ✅

Not the most challenging goals but a nice rhythm is evolving along with feelings of satisfaction and success.

What I have NOT managed to achieve is my goal of daily yoga practice, even though I…