#140 - How to Make Changes Stick

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Marriage, Mental Health, Success, Emotionalintelligence, Selfhelp, Wellness, Mentalhealth, Selfimprovement, Career, Health, Society & Culture, Careerdevelopment, Mindfulness, Lifeadvice, Dating, Parenting, Breakups, Relationships, Productivity, Positive, Happiness, Goals, Health & Fitness, Communication

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Advice From a Life Coach: Here we are, just a week into the new year. If you're like many people, your track record on those resolutions may already be spotty. Or perhaps you've tossed the whole plan out the window already.

Fear not: Making changes is not about doing the thing perfectly every time. You don't just hop in a car, point the steering wheel in the general direction of the grocery store, and then expect to get there do you? Of course not. From the moment you pull out of the driveway you're turning, speeding up, slowing down, taking detours, stopping for gas — you adjust and flex the whole way there.

BUT. That's not to say that it isn't helpful to have tools and strategies to help you along the way. Just like you use your handy Google Map App to get you from A-Z, there are many useful tricks and life-hacks to make doing what you want to do easier than it would be if you just wandered out without a map.

Particularly if your goals for the new year involve creating a new keystone habit, and making it stick, there's an easy way and a hard way. Here at Growing Self, we're all about making growth and success as simple and painless as possible. So, here's a bonus episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast to support you on your journey.

I'll be discussing:

Useful apps and practical strategies to keep you on track
Psychological strategies to keep you motivated.
The mindsets that will lead you towards success... and the ones that will send you skidding off the rails

You can do this!

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

www.growingself.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, this is Lisa Marie Bobby and I am doing a quick and dirty supplemental podcast just to help you at the start of the new year.
0:12.2	Last week I launched a Keystone Habits podcast intended to help you get a running start on the new year.
0:20.8	And since then, I've heard from a
0:23.2	couple people that they are really looking for some extra skills and strategies to really help
0:30.0	themselves stay on track. Like, I know we've all been there, right? You know what you need to do,
0:35.5	but it's how do I get myself to do what I need to do.
0:38.9	And so I know I usually post podcasts every couple of weeks, but I'm busting in a week early just to give you some extra
0:46.9	support right now. And I want to share some tools, some like really specific tools like apps and things that we often use with our
0:56.3	coaching and counseling clients here at Growing Self and also a couple of mindsets that will
1:02.4	help you stay on track and also a couple of psychological jujitsu moves that can help you stay in a good place, stay on track,
1:14.9	and get yourself to do what you need to do.
1:17.5	So without further ado, I'm going to jump right in.
1:22.3	As you know, when you are making a big change or trying to develop a new habit, it can be really hard to
1:31.0	do it every day, do it consistently, and that is what is required to really make something a new
1:38.2	habit. It takes a while, as I mentioned last time, to create that new habit. And the key is repetition. So,
1:47.9	here are some very specific strategies to do that. First of all, the original habit tracker.
1:56.7	You guys are going to laugh at me when I tell you this, but what the original habit tracker is anything that you can use to simply mark off the days that you do the intended habit.
2:09.6	And there's a certain level of psychological momentum that gets going when you're on a streak.
2:17.0	And to see yourself being on a streak and to kind of track that streak, that makes you not want to
2:23.3	mess that streak up by not engaging in the habit.
2:26.7	So you can wander yourself in to any office supply store, drug store, grocery store,
2:33.2	and pick up a 99 cent calendar that shows you
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