You become your habits. So if you want to have anything good happen in life, you want to make it habitual. And that should be one of your goals where people come up and they start saying, wow, you're different. I can really see a difference in you. That's the power of habits.

Welcome to the Growth Lab podcast where we uncover the science of how to grow yourself, your health, your wealth, and take your career and relationships to the next level.

I'm your host, Dr. Josh Axe. I'm a graduate of John Hopkins University. I'm the founder of ancient nutrition and leaders.com. And on today's episode, we're going to talk through the five habits that helped radically change my life.

And if you're a person saying, I want to transform, I want to grow, I want to experience a breakthrough, habits are absolutely essential.

And there's a study recently done at Duke University, and they said that habits account for approximately 40% of our

behaviors each and every day. Aristotle believed that number was closer to 90%. And Will Durant,

a famous philosopher, said, paraphrased Aristotle basically saying, we are what we repeatedly do.

So your habits become you,

and essentially that becomes your identity.

And so your habits are absolutely essential

for you to become who you want to be.

So if you're saying to yourself,

you know what, I want to eventually achieve something, I want to accomplish

something, or you want to become a certain type of person. Habits are those essential ingredients

that help you create that life that you've always dreamed of. You know, I first became conscious

of habits when I was in high school. And my dad sat me down, I remember once and he said, you know, Josh, he said, if you're going to grow at anything, habits are important.

And so one thing my dad did is he said, I'm going to have you start doing pull-ups and push-ups before you walk into the house each day. So he said five days a week, before you walk in the door, I'm going to have you start doing one set at least of pull-ups and push-ups. And so I started doing this every day. I got home from school, would get off the school bus, and I would walk into the garage. My dad had put up a pull-up bar, and I would do one set of pull-ups. And then I would do one set of push-ups. By the way, by the end of high school, I was able to do over 30 pull-ups. And I'm talking about very, very strict pull-ups. It was because I was focused on just getting a little bit better every day. I had this habit. By the way,

this habit took me about one minute to do pull-ups, one minute to do push-ups, and I could do

well over 100 push-ups and over 30 pull-ups. Habits are even more important in other areas of your

life. Now, we're going to talk about habits in five different areas, one of those being health,

another being getting another being your

getting better in your career skill we're gonna talk about character we're

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