Creating Habits: All You’ll Ever Need To Know

The Mindset Mentor

Rob Dial

Education, Mindset, Business, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today, we're going inside the world of habits—how to form good ones and kick the bad ones to the curb. Did you know that nearly half of what we do every day is driven by habits? Crazy, right? Here's what we'll cover: 1. The Power of Habits: Discover how about 40-48% of our daily actions are on autopilot, thanks to habits. It’s all about saving brain power, but sometimes it can lock us into unwanted behaviors. 2. The Habit Loop: Learn about the three-step process behind every habit: cue, routine, and reward. Understanding this loop is key to making real changes. 3. Spotting Cues and Triggers: Get to know the cues that set off your habits. Whether it's an external trigger like your environment or an internal one like your emotions, recognizing these is the first step to change. 4. Routine and Reward: Dive into the nitty-gritty of routines and the rewards that keep you coming back for more. It's all about those feel-good moments that make habits stick, thanks to a little thing called dopamine. 5. Making Positive Changes: Ready to make some changes? We’ll talk about becoming aware of your habits and setting up new, positive ones. Celebrate your wins and be mindful of those triggers to replace bad habits with awesome ones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode.
0:15.8	I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and understand who you are
0:20.6	because if you could grow yourself you can make your life better.
0:23.6	So if that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button so you never miss another
0:26.7	episode.
0:27.7	Today I am going to give you a full-on masterclass of exactly what habits are, how to create them and how to break them.
0:37.1	Did you know that about half of what you do is a habit?
0:40.9	So there's a study that's done at Duke University that found that approximately 40% of our daily actions are driven by habits instead of new decisions.
0:50.0	There was also another study that was done at Harvard that founded about 48% of what it is that we do are habits.
0:58.0	And when we are just doing this, you have to think about it, that's nearly half for those two, right?
1:02.0	Which means that we are unconsciously you have to think about it, that's nearly half for those two, right?
1:03.0	Which means that we are unconsciously doing,
1:05.8	about 50% of what we do throughout the day,
1:07.7	we're not even consciously paying attention to.
1:09.7	It's just habits of stuff that we've been doing for so long.
1:12.2	But when you look at a habit, what is a habit exactly?
1:15.5	They are basically automatic routines that control all of our daily actions in some way.
1:20.9	And it could be the act of just brushing your teeth, something that you've done
1:24.4	thousands of times, or it can be a really complex cognitive process like how we react to
1:30.0	somebody that looks like someone that we used to know and we react to them based off of past traumas that have happened to us.
1:37.5	And so when you look at it, the first thing I always ask myself is why, right?
1:42.0	So I ask myself that about myself all the time, why am I this way, why do I do this, why do I act this way, why did I do that? But when I look at this and I look at habits, the first question I have for myself is why does our brain make a habit?
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