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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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Good habits are one of the key ingredients of success. In this episode, Brian shares how you can change your life by changing your habits, one step at a time. If you want to stop living on autopilot, break bad habits and build up positive habits instead, then this episode is for you!
Mentioned in this episode:
"Atomic Habits," by James Clear
"The Power of Habit," by Charles Duhigg
"The Power of Full Engagement," by Tony Schwartz
www.halhigdon.com - Hal Higdon
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“We can break bad habits and we can institute good habits.” – Brian Buffini
“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.” – Og Mandino
“Habits will form whether you want them or not. Whatever you repeat, you reinforce.” – James Clear
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Anytime you take the smallest of bad habits and replace them with a good habit, you change your life.” – Brian Buffini
“If you don’t think small things make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” – Anonymous
“We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.” – Zig Ziglar
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Charles Duhigg
“If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses.” – Jack Canfield
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.” – Harvey Mackay
“The man who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
0:10.0 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
0:15.0 | Today's episode is entitled Breaking Bad. |
0:19.0 | This is not about the Netflix show. |
0:21.0 | This is about one of the |
0:23.4 | the key ingredients to being successful. So what we're going to talk today |
0:26.1 | about is breaking bad habits. And I've got three points for you. I know that's |
0:31.4 | not a shock to you. But we're going to talk about good |
0:34.9 | and bad habits. We're talking about how specifically to break the bad ones. And then we're |
0:38.5 | talking about building good habits so we can give you some how-tos along the way. A habit by definition is a pattern of behavior |
0:46.8 | acquired by frequent repetition. Now what we know about habits is that the vast majority of habits are unconscious. |
0:55.4 | In fact, the study of the subconscious, unconscious mind has proven that 80% of all habits come out of the unconscious. |
1:04.8 | It's what we do on autopilot. |
1:07.3 | Sometimes it's called involuntary action. |
1:10.4 | You know, we do so many things on autopilot. |
1:12.3 | You ever driven home from work? |
1:13.5 | Kind of parked the car and go how the heck do I get home? |
1:16.5 | It's because you were driving on autopilot. It didn't mean you were a bad driver. |
1:20.0 | Didn't mean you weren't tuned in. It just meant you were so locked into the familiar of the habits |
1:26.0 | that you were unconsciously doing it. |
1:27.8 | And so it's very important to know that we can break bad habits and that we can institute good habits and that's important. |
1:36.5 | My great mentor and hero, the great Ogmandino, said good habits are the key to all success and bad habits are the |
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