Re-Release: James Clear on the Compounding Nature of Habits, Part 1

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Are you ready to make some changes in your life in 2020? Click Here to book your Free Strategy Session with Eric! Chances are, you’ve heard the name James Clear. Especially if you have done any research whatsoever about building habits. That’s kinda his neck of the woods. His work has appeared in The New York Times, CBS This Morning, Time, Entrepreneur and he has taught in colleges around the world. In this episode, part 1 of a 2 part series, he talks about his new book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. It’s a fascinating and educational discussion surrounding how to work with yourself and your habits to set yourself up for short and long-term success when it comes to behavior change. Everyone can benefit from listening to the wisdom in this episode. Enjoy. In This Interview, James Clear and I Discuss… His book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones How habits can compound for you or against you That small changes don’t seem to matter much in the moment The 4 Laws of Behavior Change Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your efforts How bamboo is like habits You need to build a foundation to see results How work isn’t wasted, it’s stored Focusing on systems rather than goals How the outcome is a natural consequence of habits That goals restrict your happiness The role of identity in behavior change How you choose to act is a vote towards the kind of person you want to be Putting your identity on the back burner while you accrue some evidence Growth vs Fixed Mindset How humans are learning machines The 4 Stages of Habits How you interpret the cues in your life determines how you respond to them The toolbox for breaking and building habits James Clear Links Homepage Instagram Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the week between Christmas and New Year's. I hope you are having a great holiday season.
0:07.0	If you're not, if you're one of those people that dislikes this time of year, then I hope you're coping with it the best you can and getting through it.
0:14.0	What we're going to do over the next several days is re-release some of our best episodes on behavior change and habit change in preparation for the New Year's.
0:24.0	Many of you are making New Year's resolutions and hopefully these will help you strengthen those.
0:29.0	I think that the end of a year and the beginning of a new decade are great times to kind of reflect on what's working well in our lives and what's not.
0:37.0	And these episodes should help you once you've done that reflection to maybe put some of those things more into practice in your life.
0:44.0	If you are looking at your life and you're realizing you could use a little bit of help with these things, you've been trying over and over again, haven't had much success.
0:52.0	You might want to consider the one you feed transformation program. You can go to ericzimmer.coachslashapplication.
0:59.0	We'll have a call together. There's no pressure on that call and we'll talk about how you might implement some of these strategies for you.
1:06.0	And now here is the episode. This is the first of two episodes we did about a little over a year and a few months ago with James Clear about habit change.
1:15.0	We're going to re-release these two as well as a couple others between now and the New Year's.
1:20.0	I hope these are helpful to you and as always thank you for listening and supporting us.
1:26.0	The same way that money compounds or multiplies through compound interest. The effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them over time.
1:34.0	Welcome to the one you feed.
1:44.0	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
1:48.0	Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.
1:54.0	And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
1:58.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
2:06.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
2:13.0	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
2:18.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
2:25.0	Thanks for joining us everybody.
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