hey this John Assaraf CEO and founder of
no Jim and today I want to discuss with
you something that is really dear to my
heart meThe daily habit and here's a
question for you you have any daily
habits that are killing your chances for
success now most people wake up at the
same time brush their teeth the same way
with the same hand using the same
toothpaste eat the same types of food
every day go to bed and bathroom at the
same time and every single day they
reinforce their habits and you and I
both know that we are creatures of habit
now some of your habits are constructive
and will move you toward your goals and
dreams and we know and you know that
some are destructive and will move you
away from your goals or dreams so the
question is what do you do to develop
some new empowering habits and what do
you do to let go of the habits that
don't serve you well here's what I can
share with you based on the latest
neuroscience research and
neuropsychology research habits usually
have some kind of an internal or
external trigger that could be a time of
day a location or even seeing a person
and then once this trigger activates
there's an automatic behavior that you
take that produces some kind of a
neurological reward that's associated
with the behavior Charles Duhigg calls
this the habit loop in his outstanding
book called the power of habit so if you
want to change any habit the latest
research is showing us that you must
first identify what is triggering the
behavior so that you can become aware of
the trigger and
then you can change or interrupt the
behavior while you still keep the reward
let me give you an example if you want
to change a habit of let's say drinking
coffee every morning or having a glass
of wine or a cocktail every night when
you walk into the house what you can do
is prepare in advance and put for
example a sticker next to your coffee
pot or your coffee cup that you use and
first thing in the morning when you get
you know to that coffee pot and you're
ready to drink your coffee what you do
is you interrupt that pattern you go for
a walk instead of having the coffee
first thing in the morning
that will give you a memory of the
trigger you change the behavior and
guess what your brain still gets it
actually still gets a reward you could
do the exact same thing if you want to
change your habit of drinking a glass of
wine every night what you do is notice
the trigger that when you come home and
take off your jacket or you put your
briefcase down you go to the fridge and
get a glass of wine or go to the pantry
and get a glass of red wine that may
lead to two or three glasses as we know
wine tends to do you can interrupt the
pattern by getting a glass of water or
going for a walk or doing three sit-ups
or instead doing something different to
interrupt the behavior we know from a
neurological perspective that this is
what is required to interrupt the
pattern and develop a new habit this new
awareness of your triggers your behavior
and your rewards is part of what we call
inner sizing and it will help you
strengthen your ability to be at cause
of your action instead of being in a
habitual pattern of behavior and in a
habitual pattern of behavior that yields
results that you may not want so what
I'd like you to do is
one habit that you want to change and
use this process that I just showed you
to recognize the trigger change the
middle part the behavior and your brain
will still get the reward that it's used
to so if you've liked this little inner
sighs what I'd love you to do is leave
me your comment below share it as well
and look forward to many more inner
sizes from me and neuro gym
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