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The Sean Croxton Sessions

Bonus | Gretchen Rubin: Breaking Bad … Habits.

The Sean Croxton Sessions

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Break those bad habits and create new ones! Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better than Before, reveals 8 effective strategies for creating new habits. Plus, how to exploit your own personality type to make your habits stick.

Topics include:

-  Why sometimes we can change and sometimes we can't – even if we want to.

- When it comes to habits and expectations, there are only four types of people. Which type are you?

- How to bust through the limitations of your habit tendencies to live more consistently with your nature.

- The 4 foundational things you need to get a handle on to master your good habits and eliminate the need for willpower.

– The importance of getting control over (or getting rid of!) the "stuff" in your life.

– Abstainers vs. moderators. Why some people need it to be "all or nothing" and how it out could make all your cravings disappear.

– Are rewards and values undermining your habits? How to set up rewards to make your habits stronger…and when it's OK to admit that you don't even want to try.

– The real reason we want new habits and how they can make your life "Better Than Before."

Hosted by Sean Croxton

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a bonus session with Gretchen Rubin, author a better than before. Here's what's coming up. There's something about getting control over the stuff in your life that makes you feel more in control of your life generally. And it's an illusion, but it's a helpful illusion. A lot of times people are like, oh yeah, when I get back in the swing of things or when the dust settle, then I'll start it again.

0:22.4

And then time goes on, time goes on.

0:25.3

And they have increasingly sense of distance from whatever it was.

0:27.1

So you want to have a real plan.

0:29.4

Craving has to do with the possibility.

0:32.2

Once you know you can have it, that's when you start to crave it. That external order gives us a feeling of inner order.

0:37.4

Let's go.

0:48.9

Yo, what's up?

0:49.9

Welcome back to the sessions.

0:51.6

I'm your host Sean Croxton.

0:53.0

Thanks so much for tuning in. This week's guest is supposed to be financial expert nicole lapin but when something happens in the news nicole has to get on the plane and go cover it so she and i've been playing some serious musical calendars for the past week or so and hopefully we'll be able to get together for our recording in the next few days and get it uploaded for you to listen to by the end of the week. So we'll stay tuned for that. I didn't want to

1:14.8

leave you hanging though. And so I thought I'd upload one my favorite underground wellness radio episodes

1:19.5

from last year. This one, it's a good one. This one's with Gretchen Rubin. She's the author of

1:24.6

Better Than Before as well as the Happiness Project.

1:27.8

And this one's about how to create new habits,

1:30.7

because the results you get in life

1:33.1

are due to your actions and your behaviors.

1:35.6

Then your actions and your behaviors

1:37.1

are influenced in large part by your habits.

1:40.0

And so if you want different results,

1:42.1

the question is, how do you change your habits?

1:44.9

And so Gretchen and I, we discuss this very question in this episode, as well as why it is that sometimes we can change so easily, but other times we can't.

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