Hello, Wineabers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast, number

437 for Wineab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop it in paycheck to pay check, get out of debt and save more money.

This is the fifth and final part of our atomic budgeting series where we're basing it all.

On James Clear's book, Atomic Habits that I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend.

He reads it himself in the audible book and you guys know I'm a fan of authors reading their own books. He nails it. I really liked it actually.

Okay, so the fifth and final big idea for the Atomic Habits book is that the environment shapes you and it's far less about

motivation and it's far more about the environment. He calls it the

invisible hand that shapes human behavior and this is a little bit scary and I'll tell you why it's because it can start to kind of have you look around with a little bit of a discerning eye.

Frankly, you're looking at people and a little bit, well, just with some discernment and you're saying is this person

supportive of my desire to change who I am or maybe detracting from it and so that can be a little bit scary. Here's a quote. It is easier

to build new habits in a new environment because you're not fighting against old cues.

And he cites this interesting story from these soldiers in Vietnam that were they were addicted to heroin

part of their coping mechanism for being in such a horrific situation and

then they would come back from the war and the recovery rate was you know where they

didn't relapse it was like 95% whereas you have someone that's addicted

to heroin here,

and then they go to rehab and they get all clean,

and then they go back to kind of their same life,

and all of those old cues are still there.

For these poor soldiers that were over in Vietnam in this horrific situation,

those cues weren't there.

So when they came home, all those cues were, they were gone.

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