Behavior Change Mistake #2

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

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🗓️ 21 May 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Get more information on The One You Feed Coaching Program. Enrollment open until May 25th The #2 Mistake Most People Make When Trying to Change Behavior: Dropping Old Behaviors Without Putting Something In Their Place Nature abhors a vacuum. Behaviors that have been done frequently enough that they have become habits are things that are now done mindlessly or effortlessly during our day. If at a certain time of day you do something and then all of the sudden you stop doing that thing, you are now left with a slice of time that was filled and is now empty. When faced with that empty space of time, it’s going to be really hard to resist doing the thing you’ve become habituated to do. So, put some other behavior in it’s place. In addition, a lot of our “negative” behavior patterns happen for a reason. There is something that they are doing for us (or did at one time). Removing them without some sort of substitute leaves a need unmet. For example, let’s say that everyday when you get home from work you have a snack. You’d like to stop having that snack because it’s close to dinner time and you don’t want the extra calories. Instead of coming home from work, sitting on the couch and doing nothing, resisting the urge to have something to eat, maybe you go for a 15 minute walk around your neighborhood instead. Get more information on The One You Feed Coaching Program. Enrollment open until May 25th The Tale of Two Wolves A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear. The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?” The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

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1:44.0	Hey everybody, it's Eric from the One You Feed and I'm back to do another mini episode.
1:59.0	But before we get started, I want to remind you that the window to enroll in the coaching program is quickly closing.
2:05.0	On Wednesday, May 25th, at 11 to 59 pm, well, 11, 59, 59 you get it.
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2:28.0	And if you do either of those things, you'll get the five biggest mistakes people make when they're trying to change behavior.
2:35.0	Last week, we talked about mistake number one, which was starting to large. This week, we're going to talk about mistake number two, which is trying to end behavior without putting something else in its place.
2:46.0	There's that old saying that you're going to have to change behavior.
2:51.0	There's that old saying that nature abhor is a vacuum. If we've been doing something for so long, it's such a habit and it's become so mindless and effortless that when we stop doing it, we've got this void there that we need to somehow fill.
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