876 - Decoding your bad habits

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.2 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In today's episode, I explore the intriguing "Trigger > Thought > Action > Consequence" model that governs our daily decisions and actions. I introduce this process, illustrating its components with familiar examples like snacking habits, reactions to alarms, and social media usage.

I delve into each element of the model, beginning with 'Triggers,' which can be external events or internal feelings. Next, I discuss 'Thoughts,' shaped by individual backgrounds including beliefs, perceptions, and experiences. 'Actions' follow, ranging from conscious to semi-conscious, and finally 'Consequences,' the outcomes of our actions, which can be immediate or delayed, positive or negative.

I then explore the intricate relationships between these components and the impact of external factors like socio-cultural norms, environmental conditions, interpersonal relationships, and biological aspects. I conclude by addressing the challenges in managing this process, like the complexities of thought processes, the unpredictability of external factors, and the difficulty of changing ingrained habits.

Don't miss the next episode, where I'll provide a strategy for effectively navigating this process. Share this episode with friends interested in understanding human behavior and subscribe for more insightful content.

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0:00.0	In this episode, I want to talk about how to decode your bad habits. That is how to understand
0:08.6	what's actually going on with the behaviors that you're trying to change and why it's so difficult to make it happen.
0:16.6	Get excited because this is tiny leaps.
0:21.0	They changes. Big Changes.
0:31.0	Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where I share simple strategies you can use to improve your life.
0:35.6	My name is Greg Klunis and today I want to talk about something called the behavior chain.
0:40.8	This is something that I learned from an app that I'm currently using to help me with fixing some of my bad habits especially those around eating and I as I was going through it I realized this could have a lot of value to bring to the rest of the community,
0:56.0	the rest of the people listening to this podcast, who also have their own changes they're trying
1:01.0	to drive in their life.
1:02.8	So I want to talk through how this works
1:05.4	and try to explain how we can use it
1:08.5	to create the type of chains that we're looking for.
1:10.8	Now, a couple of quick caveats. First of all I am traveling so if you're
1:14.8	watching the video you'll notice I'm not in my normal studio space. I am in a bedroom so
1:19.6	forgive me for that if anything feels messy or anything like that. And the second part as a piece of
1:25.2	traveling is that I don't have my normal microphone. So I have set up a decent system and hopefully
1:30.9	it sounds good enough to help this message get through but forgive
1:36.8	me for not being at the normal sort of quality that you've come to expect from
1:40.9	the show. So with all of that set, the behavior chain is this idea. It's sort of this sequential series of actions and things that occur around a behavior occurring. And the four pieces of it are the trigger, the thought, the action, and the consequence.
1:59.7	And in this episode we're going to dive into each of those,
2:02.8	but there's a couple of really important things
2:05.5	to understand when it comes to the behavior chain.
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