Small Wins, Long Winters
Four short chapters on building habits that survive a bad week, a cold month and a hard year.
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Most habit books are written for your best week. This one is written for your worst. Arjun Mehta, a Toronto physiotherapist, shares what he learned from hundreds of patients rebuilding strength one small session at a time: why ten minutes beats an hour, how to restart without guilt, and what his parents’ first Canadian winter taught him about showing up. Practical, short and honest.
My parents landed at Pearson in January 1994 with two suitcases and a pressure cooker. My mother had packed the cooker in the middle of her clothes, wrapped in a sari, because she had heard that Canadian rice was different and she did not trust it. That first winter my father worked nights at a bakery in Rexdale and my mother cleaned offices downtown. They did not have a plan for personal growth. They had a routine: dal on Sunday, calls home on the first of the month, English lessons on Tuesday
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I am a physiotherapist in Scarborough. Most of my work is helping people do one more rep than they did last week, and most of what I know about change I learned from watching them. My parents came to Toronto from Ahmedabad in 1994 with two suitcases and a pressure cooker, and they never once talked about motivation. They talked about showing up. Small Wins, Long Winters is the book I wish someone had handed me during my first Canadian winter as a student, when I stopped doing almost everything. It is short on purpose.
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