3080: How to Get Back on Track with Motivation & Habits by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on Resilience & Overcoming Setbacks

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3080: Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net shares a straightforward method to overcome the inevitable derailments in motivation and habits. He emphasizes that mood plays a crucial role in getting back on track and offers a simple, actionable strategy focused on small victories and incremental progress. This approach aims to rebuild our motivation and habits, making us more resilient to future setbacks. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://zenhabits.net/back/ Quotes to ponder: "All it takes is a small admission of struggle, a willingness to ask whether you want to get back on track, and a focus on small steps and victories." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The ducks were quacking. All was well as Derek Johns stubbed out his lunchtime cigarette on the ground and put his rubbish in the bin.
0:09.4	On his way back to work he suddenly felt terribly guilty. But why? What had he done? He was racking
0:15.7	his brains and then he saw it. A duck pointing angrily at his discarded cigarette butt.
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1:00.8	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 3080.
1:04.0	How to get back on track with motivation and habits by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
1:09.5	And I'm Justin Molek, or personal narrator, reading to you every single day of the year with permission from the authors.
1:17.0	Now let's get right to it as we optimize your life. How to get back on track with motivation and habits by Leo Babbauta of Zen Habits.
1:31.0	It happens to all of us. You're going strong with a project, with learning something new,
1:38.0	with a new habit or two, and things go sideways., get derailed.
1:43.2	This is a critical junction.
1:45.2	If you let yourself quit, all your time and effort
1:48.0	up until now has been for not.
1:51.0	If you can get back on track, things can be great again.
1:55.0	Most people don't know how to get back on track and fail repeatedly.
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