Episode 590: Daily Habits That Can Transform Your Life in Six Months

What if you are expecting too much from yourself in one week and far too little from what you could accomplish in six months? Real change often happens through small decisions repeated long enough to create momentum, even when progress feels slow. We dive deeper into this in today's solo episode of Habits & Hustle. I talk about why the boring middle is where so many people give up, how your daily habits shape where you end up, and actionable ways to start making choices now that can put you in a completely different place six months from today. I also get into personal responsibility, why feeling stuck can become a mindset, and how taking more ownership over your health, career, relationships, or confidence can change the trajectory of your life. What's Discussed: (00:00) How much your life can change in six months. (01:31) Why we underestimate what six months can do. (01:58) How to push through the boring middle. (02:46) Why daily habits shape your results. (04:32) How feeling stuck can limit your agency. (05:29) Why taking responsibility changes everything. (06:55) How to choose one area to improve. (08:02) Why the next six months matter. Thank You to Our Sponsors! Magic Mind: Head over to magicmind.com/jen http://www.magicmind.com/jen and use code JEN at checkout. Momentous: Ready to try supplements that actually do what they claim? Head to livemomentous.com http://livemomentous.com and use code JEN for 35% off your first subscription. Therasage: Visit therasage.com http://therasage.com and use code JEN to get 15% off your order. Your skin Prolon: Prolon is offering listeners 30% off sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Program! Just visit prolonlife.com/JENNIFERCOHEN https://prolonlife.com/JENNIFERCOHEN and use code JENNIFERCOHEN to claim your discount and your bonus gift. Kion: Visit getkion.com/habits http://getkion.com/habits for 20% off. Tru Niagen®: For supplements that are rigorously tested, third-party verified, and actually deliver what's on the label, head to truniagen.com http://truniagen.com Find more from Jen Cohen: Website: jennifercohen.com https://jennifercohen.com Instagram: @therealjencohen http://instagram.com/therealjencohen Books: jennifercohen.com/books https://jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements https://jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.

• 0:06Jen Cohen?

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• 1:30Jen Cohen?

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• 1:44Jen Cohen?

  All right, I want to talk about something today on this solo episode and that is the power of hope and feeling that we all can change our lives just by doing one thing or one small thing differently. And this is the power of six months. Six months from now, you can be living a completely different life. You can be in a different relationship, you can have a different job, you can have a different body, you can have a different group of friends, you could be living in a different state. I mean, literally, doing one thing different creates a chain reaction that change the trajectory of where your life goes. It's kind of like sliding doors in a way. Like if you went into that door versus that door, this door versus that door, what can change?

• 2:30Jen Cohen?

  I always think about that. I love that movie because of the message behind it, right? Like, life is literally, it's so delicate, right? Fragile. You just, you yin instead of yang and your life takes on a whole different trajectory. Which, you know, what I like about this idea though is that we actually have a lot of control. Like some things we don't, we have no control over, like which door sometimes, what subway door we go into. But a lot of the things that we do have control over, that we have agency over, we can make a difference of those things. You know, I think a lot of times, we overestimate what we can accomplish in a week, but we underestimate how much we can accomplish in six months.

• 3:14Jen Cohen?

  There's a big gap between that one week and six months, right? We have to kind of get really good and get comfortable and cognizant of the boring middle, right? That's where people really kind of like, that's where we lose people, right? The boring middle. But the reality is like, anything worth having, any goal that you're trying to get to, again, no matter what it is, that perfect body or that, you know, that great relationship, nothing is perfect and nothing is easy all the time. There's going to be ebbs and flows, there's going to be ups and downs, there's going to be stagnations, there's going to be plateaus. That is life, no matter how good or how stressful or whatever.

• 3:56Jen Cohen?

  And I think that once we understand that to be the facts, we can, it helps, it kind of, we can do a lot with that. I think six months of consistency is actually a massive amount of time. So what we have to ask ourselves is, what are we doing today to get to what we want to get to tomorrow? Or in six months from now, what are the habits? What does our days look like? So if you want to have, if you want to, if you want to have a super strong body, you know, what are you doing today about it? You know, like, people say to me all the time, like, "Oh, I wish I, you know, I was as fit as you." Okay, well, why are you wishing? You have that, you, you, it's not that I, I don't wish it.

• 4:41Jen Cohen?

  I actually work for it every single day. Nothing comes easy to me. Trust me, I have to work for everything. So if you want to be fit, guess what you need to do? What are the habits that people who are fit do day in and day out? So you ask yourself, are you sleeping enough? Are you exercising daily? What are, are you eating properly? Are you, you know, are you walking your 10,000 steps? I can go on and on and on. So my point is, if that is a goal, six months from today, your body, your body composition can make an exorbitant amount of changes based on those habits.

• 5:22Jen Cohen?

  If you want to change your career, what are you doing now, today, to make that happen? Are you networking with the right people? Are you making calls? Are you checking, you know, LinkedIn? Are you contacting people on LinkedIn who are in the, in the field that you want to be in? Are you putting yourself in places where that can happen? Are you working on it, quite frankly? Are you working on, working on it? You don't want to be in the relationship you want, like, I can go on and on, right? Like, you don't like the relationship you're, you're in? All right, well, what are you doing to make it better? I, it's with everything in life, right? Like, I think that we, a lot of times, are our worst enemies. We make ourselves stuck.

• 6:06Jen Cohen?

  We feel overwhelmed or we feel like we don't have the agency and that life happens to us. But that is a mindset, right? You got to reverse that. Life happens, like, life happens by what you do day to day. And that's why, you know, I talk about the habit and hustle. Because I think, the reason why I called this podcast Habits and Hustle is because I truly believe in my core that we do have the agency by what we do and how we do it to really achieve what we want. And the onus is on us. We are the CEO of our own lives and we have to take onus for how our lives happen. We have to take responsibility.

• 6:51Jen Cohen?

  I think one of the greatest life lessons I've ever got was that you can't blame anybody for anything. You've got to take, even when you, even when your, the best piece of advice I was ever given was just take responsibility. You know, like, don't pass the buck, even if it wasn't your fault. A lot of times, it's easier just to take the responsibility and not, you know, maybe you could have done something different and then move on, right? I just think it's a much easier way to live your life. You know, like, I just think it's, we have to really kind of internalize the idea that one decision can create a completely different chain of events. I can't, I can't even express that enough. I have requests from everybody who's listening or watching.

• 7:34Jen Cohen?

  I want everyone to think of one thing that they would want to improve. It can be anything. It can be the, your fitness level. It can be your finances. It can be the doom scrolling on your phone. It can be really improving your confidence, your, whatever it is. And work on one thing that you can improve in, from today and mark your calendar that you're going to, in six months, you're going to look again. What are you going to do today, tomorrow, the next day, this week, next week, the following week, to change that one thing? Pick what it is and then do the steps necessary to get there.

• 8:17Jen Cohen?

  And then when you look in six months, I promise you, you're going to see an improvement. It may not be 100%, but it will definitely be more than what you have today. So it may not be 100%, but it's definitely going to be more than you are today. Because here's the reality, no matter what, six months is going to be, is coming, right? Whether you do anything different or not, that six months is going to be around the corner, right? So make up your mind. Are you going to do things differently to show up, to show up? Are you going to show up differently for that six month, in that six months? So you are in a different place or are you going to be stagnant and stay the same? That's really the question. It's very simple.

• 8:59Jen Cohen?

  So that's what I want to do. I want to leave people with an actionable thing that they can do. Pick one small thing or one thing and work on that one thing to make a difference in six months. And ask someone, look at something, chat, GPT, what are the habits? What are the, what does my day-to-day look like to make those differences? And then take agency and make those differences. Because remember, in six months from today, it's, six months is going to be here no matter what. So either you are proactive or you're stagnant. And that really becomes a decision that you make. So that's what I have to say for myself today and I hope that inspired somebody to take action and do something different.

• 9:45Jen Cohen?

  And let me know how it goes in the comments. I'll be, I'll be looking. So, by the way, if you have not subscribed yet, please subscribe. It makes a major difference in our algorithm. Thank you. Have a great day, guys.