This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today we have an interview with best-selling author Marshall Goldsmith on the subject of triggers.

This is Stevea Robbins with the Get It Done Guy podcast, and I am here today with Marshall Goldsmith.

He is a number one bestselling New York Times and pretty much everything author,

and he has come out with a new book called Triggers, Creating Behavior That Last and

Becoming the Person You Want to Be.

Marshall, welcome.

Oh, great to talk to you.

I'm really curious, why triggers? What does that mean? Well, in my work as an executive coach, as I began my career, I thought the key variable

for a successful behavioral change was the coach.

Then I realized later that although I'm the same coach, the results were quite different than

it wasn't just the coach, it was the person more than the coach.

And then as I got further into it, I realized the environment also plays a huge role.

So if you take the same person and put it back with no changes in the environment

or coaching on how to deal with the environment, they tend to repeat the same problems.

So triggers is one that got me thinking about the triggers in the environment.

What is a trigger?

A trigger is to any stimulus that influences our behavior and how the environment can change

us.

The extreme negative example would be a drug addict that goes to rehab, gets better, is sincerely

motivated to change, wants to change, it's not a hypocrite or a phony, but then goes back in the

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