Ted Talk 109: How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits (Even If You've Tried Before)
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
If we are being honest, we all experienced this whether we've failed our latest diet (again) or felt the pull to refresh our Instagram feed instead of making progress on a work project that is past due. The question is, why is it so hard for us to take back control of our lives when we struggle with these kinds of toxic habits? In this new Ted Talk episode, Ted Ryce explains the link between stress and unhealthy habits and shares some proven strategies to break bad habits for good. Listen Now!
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| 0:00.0 | So the first step in changing these behaviors is one to become aware that there are habits |
| 0:10.4 | and we have these habits and maybe you can ask yourself the deeper questions to figure |
| 0:14.8 | out where they come from but to be honest we don't need to know where they come from. |
| 0:19.6 | It might be helpful to know, I think it's helpful to know, but the way to change your |
| 0:24.5 | behavior and this is going to sound super simple and it is but it's also very hard is we need |
| 0:31.2 | to every time that behavior shows up we need to do something different. |
| 0:38.9 | Welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast where it's all about taking control of your health, |
| 0:44.0 | losing fat, transforming your body and living the life you deserve with celebrity fitness trainer |
| 0:49.8 | and longevity enthusiast Ted Rice. Now back to the show. Why is it so hard to break bad habits? |
| 0:58.8 | Have you ever asked yourself that when you're trying to change you're trying to get yourself to do |
| 1:03.7 | something and then the stress comes back on and you just fall back into old behaviors. |
| 1:10.5 | Why is it so hard to break these bad habits? That is what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome back to the show. I'm your host Ted Rice, coach to business owners and busy professionals |
| 1:23.4 | and part of what I do is help people break these bad habits and I have a history of having many |
| 1:29.4 | bad habits. Now you may see me on social media or hear me on this podcast and say wow man that guy |
| 1:35.6 | really must have his life together. Well that's I have my life more together than I ever have |
| 1:42.8 | but I still struggle with these habits with some of these habits and today I want to share with you |
| 1:48.3 | some stories that will help you understand your bad habits better why you have them, why they're |
| 1:55.2 | so hard to break and more importantly what you can do about it. So here's here's what I want to |
| 2:01.4 | share with you first. I had this really bad habit in my 20s of coming home and smoking marijuana. |
| 2:09.4 | Now in my 20s in case you haven't heard this story I was a personal trainer in Miami Beach. |
| 2:14.6 | I work with a lot of celebrities. I work with Robert Downey Jr. Ricky Martin got to train |
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