The Power of Habit | Change Your Life with Daily Discipline
By The Mindset Mentor Podcast
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Move Body Daily**: You need to move your body more and every single day to avoid depression, foggy brain, and low energy. Go for a daily walk outside and do strength training two to three times a week. [02:43], [03:38] - **More Muscle Burns Fat**: If you're trying to burn fat, one little secret is the more muscle you create, the more your metabolism works to burn fat. You'll look better and burn a whole lot more fat. [03:50], [04:04] - **Creativity Still Inside**: Your creativity is screaming inside of you to get out; humans are made to create and every single person is creative, just buried under errands. Find a creative outlet like guitar, painting, or writing for 10 minutes a day. [04:59], [05:33] - **Habit Stacking Works**: Anchor your new habit to something you already do; it's called habit stacking, like after I brush my teeth, I do 100 push-ups. It's like putting a new train car on a track that's already running. [11:40], [12:26] - **Celebrate Tiny Wins**: Celebrate yourself when you do the habit because your brain loves rewards and releases dopamine, making you want more. Tiny little wins turn into more trust within yourself and bigger wins over time. [13:52], [14:46]
Topics Covered
- Habits Trump Motivation
- Target 5% Needle-Movers
- Creativity Buried Under Errands
- Applied Knowledge Weaponizes
- Habit Stack for Identity Shift
Full Transcript
You don't need more motivation. You need
better habits. Because right now, whether you realize it or not, your life is being run by invisible habits that you might not even be aware of. And most
of them a lot of times are working against you. They can be draining your
against you. They can be draining your energy, stealing your time, and then quietly stealing your potential. And if
you keep saying something like, "Someday I'll get my life together." But your habits don't change. Then nothing else in your life is going to change. And the
scariest part about this is that if you don't change, you will wake up in 10 years from now and you will have the same problems that you do today. But the
difference is you're going to just be older and those habits and problems are going to be 10 times harder to break. So
let me show you how to change your habits so that you can change the entire course of your life. First thing I want to talk about is let's stop pretending that you need 500 habits like new habits
to fix your life. You need maybe one, two, or like three habits that will create a massive ripple effect in your life. So you don't have to think like I
life. So you don't have to think like I need 57 habits. No, you just need a few.
And I'm going to give you six different ones to choose from today. And the truth is 80% of your life results come from 20% of the things that you consistently
do. And if I'm being honest with you,
do. And if I'm being honest with you, it's probably like 5%. And these 5% are like the biggest needle moving habits
that you can create in your life. They
are super important. And so let's find your 5%. Because these are not the same
your 5%. Because these are not the same for every single person that's going to be listening to this episode. But I'm
going to give you six categories that I want you to explore. And I want you to pick out the ones that you feel you need the most in your life right now. Number
one, the first one is you need one habit that keeps you healthy and in shape. I'm
not saying that you need a six-pack. I'm
not saying that you need 5% body fat.
I'm not saying that you need to run a marathon, but you need a body that can carry out your mission in life. You need
a body that can keep up with the life that you see in your future that you want to create. And if you don't have the body that you need in order to bring
you there, you need to create it. And I
don't mean like this isn't about punishment. You're not punishing
punishment. You're not punishing yourself. You're not punishing your
yourself. You're not punishing your body. I want you to understand that when
body. I want you to understand that when you feel better physically, everything in your life is easier. You work better mentally. You work better emotionally.
mentally. You work better emotionally.
You have more energy. Like you need this vessel that you live in to be as full of energy as you possibly can every single day. And the first thing that you really
day. And the first thing that you really need to understand is that you need to move more and you need to move every single day. You don't need to walk 10
single day. You don't need to walk 10 miles, but I cannot highlight this enough. So few people nowadays move
enough. So few people nowadays move their body as much as they need to and then they wonder why they're depressed and why they have a foggy brain and why they don't look the way that they want
to, why they don't have energy that they want to. You need to move your body more
want to. You need to move your body more and we will be right back. Hey, I want to interrupt today's episode to tell you about my sponsor. It is me, myself. If
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So, go for a daily walk outside, move your body, clear your mind, do strength training two to three times a week, you know, get some muscle on your body. And
I want you to realize this. If you're
trying to burn fat, one little secret a lot of people don't know about is the more muscle that you create in your body, the more your metabolism works to burn fat. So, if you just try to bring
burn fat. So, if you just try to bring on more muscle into your body, number one, you'll probably look better. Number
two, you'll burn a whole lot more fat as well. Do some yoga throughout the week.
well. Do some yoga throughout the week.
Do some running throughout the week. Go
for more walks. Do more stretching. Give
your body some love. It needs some love.
So many people are neglecting their body. Free your body from sitting down
body. Free your body from sitting down in this position that we're all stuck in all day long. Another healthy habit, prep one healthy meal per day. Like your
body is your home. It's the only home you're ever going to have. Treat it like it's the found it's the foundation of your life. Start treating your body like
your life. Start treating your body like it's a temple and stop treating it like a tent. That's a Jimmy Buffett reference
a tent. That's a Jimmy Buffett reference for any of those parrot heads out there.
So that's number one. Number two, you need one habit that is a creative outlet for you. This one is really, really
for you. This one is really, really underrated. But if you're always
underrated. But if you're always consuming content, whether that be reading or on Instagram or Tik Tok or YouTube or Netflix, if you're always
consuming, you're never creating. And
your creativity is screaming inside of you to get out. Humans are made to create. Every single person is creative.
create. Every single person is creative.
You have seen how creative children are, right? I want you to realize that didn't
right? I want you to realize that didn't die inside of you. You weren't just like born without creativity. You weren't the kid that just was, you know, popped out and you just decided to stare at walls.
I'm sure you had a creative mind when you were a kid. It didn't die inside of you. It's just buried under all of the
you. It's just buried under all of the errands on your to-do list. And so, you need something that is just yours. Not
something that you're going to do to make money, but something that's yours that is your creative outlet. What is
it? It could be guitar. It could be singing. It could be dancing. Uh
singing. It could be dancing. Uh
painting, pottery, it could be writing for 10 minutes a day. It could be making videos. It could be editing. It could be
videos. It could be editing. It could be gardening, photography, even Lego building, puzzles, just something that is just you creating something that
you're putting out into the world. It's
not about being good or being perfect or mastering this thing. It's about getting your internal world out into the external world. So, that's number two.
external world. So, that's number two.
Number three is you need one habit that builds your knowledge. The fastest way to change your life is to upgrade your brain. Not just once, every single day.
brain. Not just once, every single day.
So if you want a better life, figure out what knowledge you need in order to create that life and then download that knowledge into your brain every single day. Read five pages a day. Listen to 10
day. Read five pages a day. Listen to 10 minutes of an audio book while you're walking. Replace TV and scrolling with
walking. Replace TV and scrolling with the podcasts are going to download the most knowledge into your brain. You want
to download knowledge into your brain.
That's it. If you want to change your life, you need knowledge and you need a skill set. That's it. What what do you
skill set. That's it. What what do you need to learn? And then what skill set do you need to learn? That's it. You
just need to download both those things into your brain. Everything in this world can be taken from you except for one thing and that is the knowledge that's in your brain. The smartest
people I know are not born smart. They
built themselves. They become obsessed with learning. You need to become
with learning. You need to become obsessed with learning. Knowledge
doesn't change your life. I understand
that. But applied knowledge that's a weapon and that's what you want to create in your brain. So that's number three. Number four is you need one habit
three. Number four is you need one habit that evolves your mindset. You want to know why so many people are stuck for decades? It's not laziness, it's mental
decades? It's not laziness, it's mental stagnation. They need to grow their
stagnation. They need to grow their mindset. You do too. That's why you're
mindset. You do too. That's why you're here for this podcast, right? Your world
will change when your inner world expands. And so you need to build stuff
expands. And so you need to build stuff into your life that develop your mindset. journaling to try to really
mindset. journaling to try to really become more aware of yourself or journaling through a hard moment or emotion. Practicing 60 seconds of
emotion. Practicing 60 seconds of gratitude, you know, developing affirmations and repeating a truth that you want to believe and brainwash into yourself every single morning.
Meditating and watching your thoughts and not judging them at all. Visualizing
who you are becoming and the life that you're creating. You know, hiring a
you're creating. You know, hiring a coach to help you get better with all of that. Mindset work is in therapy. It's
that. Mindset work is in therapy. It's
basically like mental strength training and you can't build a strong life if you have a if you have a fragile mind. So
that's number four. Number five is you need a relationship strengthening habit because success and achievement without connection is just you know loneliness
with more money. Like we as humans are wired for connection, but most people who are trying to achieve unintentionally neglect their most important relationships, friends,
partners, children, and especially themselves. And so maybe you want to
themselves. And so maybe you want to make sure that you have one intentional conversation per day with someone that you care about. Maybe you have a daily phoneown dinner where you have dinner
with your family every single night and you never look at your phone during dinner. Maybe you send one gratitude
dinner. Maybe you send one gratitude text every morning to somebody. Maybe
you have a weekly date night, no matter what, with your partner. Or if you don't have a partner, maybe you have a weekly date night with yourself. Right? The
reason why this matters is because your relationships shape your nervous system.
The better that your relationships are, the safer, the stronger, and the more joyful that you actually feel in your life. So that's number five. And number
life. So that's number five. And number
six is a wealth creating habit. Money
won't buy happiness, but the stress of not having money will rob you of happiness. And I always say the only
happiness. And I always say the only problems that money solves are money problems. And so, you know, I'm not just talking about like making more money. Of
course, you can have a habit where you make more money, but you can also have a habit where you learn how to save money.
You can have a habit where you learn how to invest money so that your money makes money babies and makes you more money without you having to do anything with it. Right? So, it's not just making
it. Right? So, it's not just making more. It's learning how to actually
more. It's learning how to actually steward the money that you have and you will continue to make and you know building trust with yourself in your financial life. And so it could be a
financial life. And so it could be a habit of checking your accounts weekly and to you know track spending daily uh in an app that helps you with that. It
could be reading uh one finance article per week. It could be 10 minutes a day
per week. It could be 10 minutes a day on a side hustle that makes you more money. It could be learning how to
money. It could be learning how to invest so that you make sure that your money makes you more money because you'll never really feel rich if you feel out of control. Money is a game and whether you realize it or not, we're all
in the game. If you want to not learn how to play the game, that's your prerogative. But if you're going to be
prerogative. But if you're going to be in the game and you can't leave this economy that we're in, you might as well learn how to play the game and get better at it. I promise you this, it
won't take away any of your problems, but it will take away your money stress that will make your life a whole lot easier. So, that's the the six habits
easier. So, that's the the six habits that you can build within yourself. Now,
let's talk about how to simply put habits into your life. I'm going to make these simple. And if you've been
these simple. And if you've been following this podcast for a while, you may have actually heard a couple of these before, but if you've ever tried to change your habits through like hype and willpower and force, you know you
can do it for like three or four days.
Sometimes you can do it for like two weeks if you have like really strong mentality and willpower, but eventually you're going to find yourself right back
in the same Netflix stained hoodie that you wear every time you sit down and watch TV wondering what happened to your habits. And a habit doesn't need to be
habits. And a habit doesn't need to be hard. It just needs to be done daily.
hard. It just needs to be done daily.
It's the consistent chipping away until it eventually just becomes part of who you are, not something that you do. And
so, this is this is the three-step method that I teach my clients to start any habit. The first one, you've
any habit. The first one, you've probably heard me say this before, being listed for a while, is you need to anchor it to something that you already do, right? Don't rely on your memory.
do, right? Don't rely on your memory.
Attach your new habit to a current habit. It's called habit stacking. After
habit. It's called habit stacking. After
I brush my teeth, I do a 100 push-ups.
After I pour coffee, I, you know, read five pages of a book. After I put the kids down for bed, I do a five minute breathing technique. After I take my
breathing technique. After I take my morning shower, I do two minutes of breath work. I don't
know, whatever it is. You take one habit that you do every single day and you attach the new habit onto it. It's
called habit stacking. Habits love
anchors. You're trying to anchor a a new habit onto an old habit you already do.
It's basically like this. It's like
putting a new train car on a track that's already running. Like you're just you're you're just attaching it and oh, it just keeps going and takes off and has a whole lot of momentum to it because it's already on the back of another one. Right? So that's the first
another one. Right? So that's the first one. The second thing is you want to
one. The second thing is you want to make it so small that it's almost laughable because it's not the habit itself that we usually resist. It's the
changing of tasks. It's doing something new that our brain usually resists. Our
brain usually doesn't want to do something new. And so if you want to
something new. And so if you want to meditate, don't go, I'm going to meditate for 20 minutes. Like just sit quietly for 60 seconds. That's it. If
you want to start writing, don't write a novel. Don't sit down and say, "I'm
novel. Don't sit down and say, "I'm going to write a novel." Don't say, "I'm going to write 20 pages today." Like,
start by writing one sentence. Like
stupid simple is what you want to do.
Don't run five miles. Just put your shoes on and walk for two minutes. Like
what you're doing is you're trying to just get this thing started. You're not
working towards the outcome. You're
trying to just get yourself started in this thing and to continue to keep showing up every single day. And what
you'll do is you'll start to build an identity of the person who does X. Like
you're going to build your identity of the person who meditates. You're going
to build your identity of the person who writes every single day. You're going to build your identity of the person who loves going on runs. by just those small little steps. Small steps make the
little steps. Small steps make the larger steps easier. So that's the second thing. And the third thing is to
second thing. And the third thing is to celebrate yourself when you do this this habit. Your brain loves rewards. It
habit. Your brain loves rewards. It
sounds ridiculous. Every time I say it, I feel ridiculous, but then I read another article about how much your brain loves to celebrate because when you celebrate, it releases dopamine. And
we all like dopamine. And when we get dopamine, we want more dopamine. So our
brain goes, hm, that thing that I just did, I got dopamine for. I'm going to do more of that thing. So, you know, even if it's just like a a smile, a fist bump, like, hell yeah, you're doing
amazing. You know, put on your favorite
amazing. You know, put on your favorite song and dance like an idiot for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, right? We don't
change through shame. And most people are trying to shame themsel into changing. We change because we build
changing. We change because we build selfrust in oursel. We we we change because we build more connection with ourel by celebrating ourel and so tiny
little wins turn into more trust within yourself. More trust within yourself
yourself. More trust within yourself turns into bigger wins which turns into more momentum. And over time it will
more momentum. And over time it will create an entire identity shift. And so
if you really want to change your life this year, what I want you to figure out is what are the two to three of the six habits that I just gave you that you're going to start this week. Don't do all
six. Please don't do all six cuz if you
six. Please don't do all six cuz if you do too much at one time, you're going to run this this car right off the track. I
promise you that. I've seen everybody be like, I'm going to do every single one of them. Do a couple of them, whatever
of them. Do a couple of them, whatever it might be. And you want to do these things every single day. And as you're doing them, remind yourself, this is who I am now. I am this type of person that
does this. I am the type of person who
does this. I am the type of person who does this. Because what we're doing is
does this. Because what we're doing is we're shifting our through our actions and our habits, we're shifting our identity. And if you become the type of
identity. And if you become the type of person that just does this, it makes taking your habits so much easier. A
quick example is like if you think about somebody who's severely overweight, they they might not have the habit at all of going to the gym and working out and being healthy. But if they just start
being healthy. But if they just start doing it every single day and they don't stop and you see them 5 years down the road and they're in incredible shape and they go to the gym every single day,
just because they love it and it's become a habit, it's just become who they are now. And that's really what we're trying to build within ourselves is the identity shift that this is who I am now. Hey, thanks so much for watching
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