BJ Fogg: Why Big Change Starts With Tiny Habits
FranklinCovey On Leadership
FranklinCovey
4.6 • 215 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's only two ways. The way that doesn't work is epiphany. And I've talked about that since 2011. |
| 0:05.1 | You know, give the whole company an epiphany or have an epiphany about exercise. You can't make that happen. |
| 0:10.9 | The second way that works is you redesign the environment. And if you need to create a big change quickly, that's how you do it. |
| 0:19.8 | You redesign the environment. You make the behaviors you want |
| 0:22.7 | really, really easy to do by redesigning the environment. That's the built environment, the physical |
| 0:27.8 | environment, the digital environment, the social environment, and the behaviors you don't want |
| 0:32.8 | people to do, you make it harder to do. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to Franklin Covey on leadership. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm your host, Will Hodolin. |
| 0:43.3 | Today is a special New Year's Resolution edition of the podcast in which we're going to talk to |
| 0:48.0 | Dr. BJ Fogg about habit formation. |
| 0:51.1 | Dr. Fogg is a behavioral scientist who has spent decades studying how individuals, |
| 0:55.8 | teams, and organizations actually change behavior. He's the founder of Stanford's |
| 1:00.6 | Behavior Design Lab, the creator of the Fogg Behavior Model, and the author of the New York |
| 1:06.0 | Times bestselling book, Tiny Habits. In today's conversation, we'll walk through his model for behavior |
| 1:12.0 | change. We'll talk about the habits that he's developing in his own life and the systems that |
| 1:16.3 | he's implemented to ensure he's effectively building those habits and how you can bring his |
| 1:21.5 | model of habit formation and behavior change to your organization. B.J. Fogg, welcome to Franklin |
| 1:26.6 | Covey on leadership. Well, hello. I'm happy to be here. Thanks for inviting me. B.J. Fogg, welcome to Franklin Covey on leadership. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, hello. I'm happy to be here. Thanks for inviting me. Wonderful. I'm very excited for today's conversation. So we are recording shortly after the beginning of a new year when many people are |
| 1:37.5 | working on resolution. So let's start personal. What is your New Year's resolution? Oh, you know, |
| 1:43.6 | I don't make traditional resolutions because I create habits throughout the year whenever I want. |
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