Good habits must work on your bad days

Aloha!

Let me start by sharing a mistake I made in this episode. At around the 5:15 mark I said…

Products are designed to work on our worst days. They are not designed to work on our worst days.

Unfortunately, that’s an example of how my brain likes to mess with me. Here’s what I wanted to say.

Products are designed to work on our BEST days. They are not designed to work on our worst days.

Whew! That feels good to get that out in the open.

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Here’s the gist to today’s show.

We should be looking to design good habits that work on our bad days.

I think of bad days like a pyramid.

At the bottom are simple things that throw us off like a bad sleep or sleeping in.

As we creep up the pyramid we see things like someone hijacking our time with something they “think” is urgent.

Higher up is an argument or disagreement that derails us by throwing us into emotional turmoil.

At the very top of the pyramid is the worst kind of days possible: dealing with loss and grief.

That last one is something I have been thinking a lot about lately. I have been very lucky and fortunate that I have not had a lot of that to deal with yet. But I will and I am trying to prepare myself for that.

In the episode, I talk about that and share a story about why I think good habits are important to dealing with the devastation that comes with loss and grief.

It’s a good listen with lots of takeaways for you to noodle on as you rethink how you design and adopt habits.

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Enjoy and thank you for your support.

Keep being awesome 😎,

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PS. I mention in the show that I coach people on how to build good habits to build their version of a highly successful body. If you are someone who wants to work with me so you can finally get the results you have long desired, click here to book your free call.

Podcast Master List…

Here’s a list of every episode I have done so far.

* Episode 19: The best advice I smartly ignored (that you should ignore also.)

* Episode 18: The compounding magic of 100 consecutive days.

* Episode 17: Is it possible to only eat one meal a day. Yup!

* Episode 16: The false thinking behind cheat days.

* Episode 15: The secret to remarkable self-discipline? Decide in advance.

* Episode 14: Customize for the context of your life.

* Episode 13: The Habit Ladder.

* Episode 12: The power of doing less more often.

* Episode 11: 10 apps that have been critical to my success.

* Episode 10: You don’t fail. Your systems do.

* Episode 9: A simple framework to build successful habits.

* Episode 8: The elegant simplicity behind 10-minute body.

* Episode 7: Why weighing yourself everyday will change your life.

* Episode 6: How to teach yourself resilience.

* Episode 5: Why smart people are often dumb eaters.

* Episode 4: Why you should think of your brain as an untrained dog.

* Episode 3: The mindset I used to quit refined sugar for good. (No sugar since July 19th, 2019.)

* Episode 2: How to create Essential Habits that last a lifetime.

* Episode 1: How to become unrecognizable.