You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in a Regora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to share with you today is this. Your habits, allies or adversaries. Think about

this. You're very unlikely to start healthy habits or reinforce good ones or break bad ones

without a more complete awareness of their impact on your life. Most people don't pay enough

attention to them or where those habits are taking them. So following, I'm going to share some

key points to help you evaluate your own habits, make some adjustments, and determine that they're

taking you to where you want to go in business and in life to live the game, change your life,

and not just making it more difficult

to get there, because quite frankly, some people cannot get out of their own way. They are one

habit away from an entirely different level of performance, either beginning a productive habit

or eliminating a destructive one. And so you guys know I like definitions because it creates clarity and understanding.

So in simplest terms, a habit is defined as a behavior.

A behavior you repeat often enough that it becomes automatic.

Okay, so I just recently did a session on you need more reps, right?

Putting in more reps in the skills that make you exceptional for what you do.

You want those skills to be habits, not to have to think about how you're doing it.

And now, but what happens also is you can do the wrong thing so often, it becomes automatic

as well.

For some people, making excuses has become a

habit. Being late has become a habit. Not good habits, by the way. Blaming other things,

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