NickVenturella.com 9-30-22 - Mind your transition calories

Mind your transition calories

September 30, 2022

Okay, now that my kid’s (and educator wife’s) school years are underway, I feel I’ve fully transitioned into our family’s “school year” routines.

Transitions can be stressful.  AKA - change is hard.

However, change is inevitable. In fact, that’s probably the one thing in life that is most predictable (besides death and taxes - Bad joke? Too soon? Okay).

Let’s break down why change is often difficult, or at the least, stressful.

If you haven’t read Charles Duhigg’s book about habits, I recommend it. That book will provide a ton of depth regarding what I’m about to share…

Our brains take a lot of energy (calories that need to be burned) to think through various actions we, as humans, need to take everyday.

Our brains are, in many ways, designed to find the most efficient path forward in terms of saving caloric energy.

Thus, when our brains begin to recognize patterns in our actions in life, the brain stores those procedures to allow it to operate those tasks on automatic pilot, which saves energy (exhausts fewer calories). Enter: Habits.

When our brains are forced to change our habits due to life circumstances changing, the brain has to exhaust more caloric energy to work through the new procedure. That is, until that new procedure becomes a pattern that the brain can more efficiently automate (the formation of a new habit).

That burst of caloric energy spent, changing from one procedure to another, is where we often feel stress. It’s this process of “working through the unknown until it’s known.”

Like anything that you’ve attempted for the first time, or in a long while, you will initially move through it more slowly than you will after you’ve completed that procedure several times.

The point is, when transitions occur and you feel yourself getting stressed just know that it’s temporary, and once the unknown is known, it will get easier.

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Stay positive. Stay healthy. Be kind.Sincerely,Nick VenturellaCreative Professional, andco-founder of Eleven Music Career CenterNickVenturella.comnickVmusic.netGeminisRival.comnickVguitars.comFacebookYouTube