Atomic Habits for Dads with James Clear
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Are you having trouble breaking bad habits and committing to good ones?
Today’s guest says the problem isn’t you, it’s your system.
James Clear is the NY Times Bestselling Author of Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. He talks about how building a system of small habits will compound over time for huge results. He'll also teach us how to design our environment so that we’ll stick to good habits without even thinking about it. Most importantly, James will tell us how we can apply atomic habits to our relationships with our spouses and children.
Whether you want to quit drinking, lose weight, excel in your business, or build deeper connection with your family, get ready to reshape your life for success!
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, what's going on guys? Hey, what's going on guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host and father and husband husband. |
| 0:37.0 | I am the host and founder and father expert and husband expert and yeah if you believe that I'll tell you another one |
| 0:47.0 | You know a lot of times I get asked like hey |
| 0:49.6 | Why do you do this show what inspired you to do this show? All that good stuff. This |
| 0:55.2 | podcast and what I'm doing today for fathers, it was out of struggle. Struggle, struggle, |
| 1:01.6 | struggle, struggle. |
| 1:02.7 | struggle. It came literally at one of the darkest times of my entire life. I just wanted to learn how to do this whole father thing better. |
| 1:15.2 | I struggled with what everybody struggles with, which is patience, work life integration. I did not have the best connection with my wife. My finances were a bit of a wreck my mental emotional health my physical health |
| 1:25.6 | was not the best my business acumen was really not the best and I desperately |
| 1:31.6 | just wanted to learn I just just wanted to learn. |
| 1:33.2 | I just wanted to learn how to be better in all those dimensions. |
| 1:38.4 | And that is still what it is today. |
| 1:41.9 | I am the founder of this show, but I am also the first person in line telling you that I don't have all the answers. |
| 1:49.0 | And I am just a genuinely curious person to interview people that are way smarter than me and that's |
| 1:56.0 | what I'm excited to do today's show because I'm interviewing somebody's way smarter than me. |
| 2:00.4 | It doesn't take much let me just tell you. So today I have the New York Times best-selling author of Atomic Habits. |
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