Sticky Habits

Sticky Habits

From The Art of Decluttering by Amy Revell

June 7, 2026 · 36 min · Season 5 · Episode 22

About this episode

Monica Packer discusses how to create sustainable habits that fit into busy lives.

You know that feeling where you know what to do… but you just don’t do it? Guest Monica Packer explains that gap isn’t about laziness or lack of discipline. It’s often because you’ve been taught habit strategies that don’t actually fit your life. When your days are full, your energy is unpredictable, and you’re carrying a mental load that never really switches off, rigid, all-or-nothing habits just don’t hold up. Instead of trying to follow a perfect plan, you’re invited to reframe from just consistency to sustainable habits. Sustainability is doing your best, most of the time, over time. That shift changes everything. Rather than starting with the ideal version of a habit, you start with a baseline. The smallest, simplest version you can do even on your hardest days. The version that works when someone’s sick, when your schedule blows out, or when your energy is low. From there, momentum builds naturally. You stop waiting for the “perfect” time to begin, and instead, you just start. You attach new habits to things you’re already doing, keep it realistic, and allow space for life to be part of the process. This is where habits become sustainable. And more than that, this is where…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Revell

Guest: Monica Packer

Topics covered

  • habits
  • sustainability
  • mental load
  • parenting
  • self-improvement

Keywords

  • habits
  • sustainability
  • mental load
  • parenting
  • self-improvement
  • consistency
  • energy management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: aboutprogress.com, stickyhabitsbook.com

Books & works: Sticky Habits

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