Changing your Habits to Become the Ideal Version of Yourself with Ben Austin
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ben Austin, the creator of Stop, Start, Do joins us to talk about finding the motivation to change your habits.
Highlights
- Maintaining morale in difficult periods of our lives
- Understanding the difference between blame and responsibility
- Getting back on the path to what we’re destined to do
- Why people close to us resist our changes
- The power of tracking and measuring your progress
- The motivational seesaw technique
- The stop the start do framework for changing habits
- The problem with trying to change too many things at once
- Developing systems to eliminate decision fatigue
Quotes
Knowing what to do is not the hard part, actually doing it is
It’s fundamental to have some sort of system to track your personal development progress
Your environment doesn’t need to crush you to change
There’s a real difference between I failed and I’m a failure
You work towards becoming the ideal version of yourself but never actually achieve it
After years of reading, researching and learning about habit formation, Ben Austin stared connecting the dots and created the framework for Stop.Start.Do.
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| 0:00.0 | 100% you have to be focused on the process of getting there. You can't be thinking about just the end result and how far away from your end result. |
| 0:08.0 | And this is where the real power of tracking your progress comes into play, into play, because then you can see okay well I've had you know let's |
| 0:15.0 | take you know lifting weights for example like if you know my goal is to bench 300 pounds |
| 0:21.3 | and I'm only benching 250 pounds I might be really |
| 0:24.3 | bummed out and sad that I'm not hitting it but if I look back on my workouts and I've |
| 0:28.0 | seen okay you know I've improved this week I improved that week got a little bit better |
| 0:31.7 | this week you could you start to see where the progress is happening. |
| 0:35.3 | And that's why I think it's almost fundamental that you have some sort of system in your life |
| 0:40.3 | for tracking your personal development progress. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative |
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