320. The secret to creating habits that last
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Habits! Those pesky little things that we're told time and time again are key to getting your life on track. They can feel like a tough nut to crack so in partnership with Medibank I’m taking you through my tips for how to form habits that last.
LINKS:
- Listen to my episode 108. How Habits can Transform Your Life at https://rebrand.ly/he7hbsr .
- Listen to episode 280. How to form a habit that STICKS! At https://rebrand.ly/bxmjqfy .
- Join the DYFM Facebook Group https://bit.ly/dyfm-group .
- Follow @dyfmpodcast on IG
- Follow @alexispredez on IG
- Follow @listnrentertainment on IG
CREDITS
Host: Alexis Fernandez
Executive Producer & Editor: Elise Cooper
Digital Producer: Zoe Panaretos
DYFM Social Producer: Shania Magua
Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh
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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? |
| 0:09.8 | I am so stressed all the time |
| 0:11.7 | How do I get into a routine? |
| 0:13.3 | Is TikTok making me anxious? |
| 0:15.2 | I think I'm being manipulated. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone told me you could live with half a brain. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Do You Fucking Minds? |
| 0:21.1 | Mindset Hacks for a Badass Life, hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today. |
| 0:29.9 | So in today's episode, we've actually partnered with Medibank to bring you this episode. |
| 0:34.8 | And it's all about habits. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm talking about how to form new habits, |
| 0:39.8 | why they're so great for your mental health, what's happening in the brain when you're forming a |
| 0:43.5 | new habit. It's going to be short and sweet. So I want to get straight into the topic of today. |
| 0:50.3 | So the first thing that I wanted to talk about when it comes to habits is what is happening in the brain when you are forming a habit. |
| 0:58.0 | Because your brain is constantly going through changes, through these neuroplastic changes. |
| 1:04.0 | And when you think neuroplasticity, I think a lot of people think, you know, oh, it's, you know, my brain's rewired itself because maybe I had an injury and then maybe it's gone and, you know, create it. And yes, that does happen with neuroplasticity when you're talking about extremes. But your brain is always molding and remoding and molding and remoding for the good and also for the bad, okay, in the sense of if you create a bad habit, you're going to have neuroplastic |
| 1:27.6 | changes in a way that isn't helpful for you, but if you create a good habit, you're going to have |
| 1:32.2 | these great neuroplastic changes that really help you. And because you're creating these changes |
| 1:37.9 | on a structural level within the brain, it actually becomes easier for you to keep doing that |
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