272: 8 Ways Tiny Habits Will Welcome the Grand Changes You Seek
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The new year rolls around and there is much talk about resolutions and cultivation of a life we wish to live. It is old news to share that many resolutions are unfulfilled; however, BJ Fogg argues that perhaps we have had a faulty instruction manual to be successful in our pursue of lasting change.
Released just this past Tuesday, December 31st, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything asserts in fact that it is the small, seemingly easy changes of habit we make in our lives that will lead to grand transformation of ourselves and therefore our overall lives, even our relationships and especially our health and overall contentment.
After devouring the book in two days during my getaway to the coast, I wanted to share with you eight takeaways that will introduce you to this shift in approach. I have already begun to implement two new tiny habits into my daily routine and look to add a third when my teaching schedule resumes this week.
The good news, if you have already written your 2020 resolutions, is that upon reading the book, you will be able to look at them more closely and construct and approach them in such a way, according to Tiny Habits to ensure their success. And if you have not created resolutions, maybe you have decided due to previous frustration that doing so is just a waste of time, taking a look at the list of takeaways below may shed some light on why past years were less fruitful than you would like and even encourage you to try again and see better results.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the two hundred and seventy second episode of the simple |
| 0:47.2 | Sophisticate. Today's episode is the first episode of |
| 0:50.8 | two thousand and twenty twenty and the start of a new decade. And of course I do enjoy |
| 0:58.6 | this opportunity to sit down and assess what's worked well and to see how to move forward even better to |
| 1:05.5 | attain the goals or make improvements that I would like to see. And so this |
| 1:11.4 | particular episode is going to focus on the much talked about |
| 1:15.5 | resolutions and cultivations of the life we wish to live, but we're going to go |
| 1:19.4 | about it in a bit of a different way because it's inspired by a book that was just released on December 31st by |
| 1:25.9 | Dr. B. J. Fogg. Now it's old news to share that many resolutions go unfulfilled. However, B.J. Fogg, who wrote the book, |
| 1:35.2 | Tiny Habits, the small changes that change everything, |
| 1:39.1 | argues that perhaps we have had a faulty instruction manual, and therefore we were not able to be |
| 1:44.8 | successful because we were following instructions that actually could not get us to the |
| 1:51.4 | goal that we wanted to. Now F Fog asserts that in fact it is small |
| 1:55.1 | seemingly easy changes of habit that we make in our lives that will lead to grand |
| 1:59.7 | transformation of ourselves and therefore our overall lives even in our relationships and especially in our health and overall contentment. |
| 2:07.0 | After devouring the book in two days during my getaway to the coast, |
| 2:11.0 | I wanted to share with you eight takeaways that will introduce you to this shift in approach when it comes to making the changes we want in our lives. |
| 2:20.0 | I have already begun to implement two new tiny habits into my daily routine, and I'm looking |
| 2:24.8 | to add a third when my teaching schedule resumes this week. |
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