Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to increase your chances of doing good for you behaviors

by pairing something you want to do

with something you want yourself to do.

For example, have a latte at your favorite coffee shop

only while you do your weekly planning session.

The promise of the latte will make it a lot easier to get yourself

to do that calendar review that you know needs to happen.

Today's tip comes from behavioral scientist Katie Milkman who coined the term

Temptation Bundling to describe this practice. You motivate a productive

behavior by linking it to a guilty pleasure, something you want to do anyway.

Her research showed that bundling listening to an audio book with exercising helped people exercise more.

Going to the gym becomes more desirable when it comes with the chance to hear what happens

in the next chapter of the Hunger Games or the Da Vinci Code. I love this idea. Instead of treating

what we want to do as the reward after we've done what we need to do, we can link

the Want to Do and Need to do and experience them both at the same time.

That way, the need to do becomes a lot more attractive.

There are a lot of potential applications of this

temptation bundling. For example you could bundle seeing a friend with working out.

You and your spouse could incentivize yard work by turning it into an adults only kids are inside watching a movie

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