293. The Theory of Marginal Gains (and the secret to ACTUALLY achieving your goals)

Do You F*cking Mind?

LiSTNR

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

5 • 862 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do tasks seem insurmountable? Are you finding your goals just SO unachievable? You might be looking at goal setting and ACHIEVING in general in a way that is setting you up to fail.

I wanna talk to you about the theory of marginal gains, how little achievements move you closer to your goals, and how to improve your life with these little bouts of moving the needle.

LINKS:

Listen to my episode with a brain fact on L-Theanine in episode 205 https://bit.ly/dyfm-205 .
Check on James Clear’s book Atomic Habits: Tiny changes Remarkable Results here https://bit.ly/jamesclearhabits .
Join the DYFM Facebook Group https://bit.ly/dyfm-group .
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Host: Alexis Fernandez
Executive Producer & Editor: Elise Cooper
Digital Producer: Zoe Panaretos
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0:00.0	A Listener Production
0:03.9	Please leave your message after the tone
0:07.3	Why am I jealous of my ex?
0:09.7	I am so stressed all the time.
0:11.8	How do I get into a routine?
0:13.3	Is TikTok making me anxious?
0:15.2	I think I'm being manipulated.
0:16.9	Someone told me you could live with half a brain.
0:19.4	This is Do You Fucking Mind, Mindset Hacks for a Badass Life?
0:23.2	Hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez.
0:25.7	Hello, my beautiful beans, and welcome to the episode of today.
0:29.8	So in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the concept of marginal gains,
0:34.7	and I actually got the idea of talking about this concept.
0:37.2	Well, I've heard about
0:37.9	it before and it's also referred to, like in the book Atomic Habits, this theory is referenced as
0:45.0	well. If you haven't read the book Atomic Habits, highly recommend. Great read. So basically the
0:51.9	other day, actually yesterday as to when I'm recording this thing, I was on the
0:56.2	Gold Coast and I was doing a talk for my friend Lucy. She's just released or re-released her app,
1:01.7	which is an organisation app called Basic Girls Guide or BGG. And in the re-release of the app,
1:07.9	she did a little event and I spoke at the event about how to structure goals
1:13.2	and how to set your goals and how to do all of that. And we had a lot of like Q&A and all of that. So it was
1:17.2	really good to get insight into how a lot of people structure their goal settings and what are
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