Taking the time to create habits in your daily activities will support the growth of your business and ensure your longevity in the animal, equine and/or pet-based industry that you love so much. Join Kim and Cara and they discuss three big things you can do to harness the power of better habits in your business.

Resource: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

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Welcome to The Business Animal podcast.

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Saddle up for a gallop to the top of the animal industry,

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where you'll learn how to tame your wild business beast with

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tips, techniques, and tools that will take overwhelm to obedience

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school, and have you wagging your tail with joy. And now your

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hosts, Kim Beer and Cara Taylor Swift.

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Hey there business animals. It's Kim with

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Be More Business.

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And Cara with Fast Horse photography. Good

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morning, Kim, what are we talking about today?

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Today we're talking about creating good

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habits in your business. I love this topic. Because I am a

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typical temperament type NFP which means NP, by the way means

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that I buy a lot of organizers and yet I am hardly ever

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organized.

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That is awesome. Well, I love talking

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about this topic because I feel like having good habits is like

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the only way to free my brain up to do anything like I have to be

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able to it some aspect kind of roll around on autopilot by my

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habits. I know I interrupted you there, but I just was thinking

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about you buying all your planners and your systems and

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then not using any of them so,

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Yeah, I love to create systems and then not use

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them. That's my favorite pastime in life, it's now it does have a

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benefit for the other people in my world because other people

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take my systems and go ahead and use them and do well. I think a

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lot of that, again, we did this episode on temperament. And for

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me, one of the things that I run up against is is a lot my

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temperament, one the P that kind of rolls with the flow versus

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going and doing the things. But my NF never looks at the details

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very deeply. It's more of a big picture type of a personality.

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And so a lot of habits are in the details. The devil is in the

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details when it comes to creating habits. And so

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regardless of what I say about habits, I do try to create good

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ones in my business. And I can tell you, when I developed good

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habits, as as good as I can keep them my business did succeed,

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it's been much more successful since I have done that. There's

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a couple of resources I'm going to mention right off the top

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that I think are really pertinent to this episode,

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because I'm going to tell you, these are things I've had to

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learn versus have things that come naturally to me. So a lot

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of what we're going to talk about today in this episode is

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going to come from two sources, both of mine and Cara's

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interpretation of those two sources. One of them is a book

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called "Atomic Habits" by James clear. And you can find that

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online at Jamesclear.com, as well as other places. And then

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another book that I have found incredibly useful is called "The

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Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson. And the slight edge is also really

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good in helping you create good habits in your business. We are

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going to distill those two books down today, as well as add our

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two cents in to a big three around this particular topic.

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Cara, why don't you give everybody the good news on the

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three things we're going to talk about to help them build better

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habits in their business today.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Okay, so we're going to talk about three

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points around creating better habits or good habits in your

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business. The first one, which I can totally get behind is make

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small changes over time to build the habit. So I love this idea

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of being able to do little tiny things to make a difference at

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the end of the day. So the second is set yourself up for

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success by designing your environment to support your

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habit. So we'll talk about that. And then the third one is all

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about motivation and willpower. And some of us are better at

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that than others. So I'm excited to dig into that part as well.

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So the first one is making small changes over

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time, build the habit. And I think this is a place where all

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of the people who are experts on this topic agree. Now once they

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get past this, this sometimes we get into the wild wild west of

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concepts about how to keep your habits and and how to maintain

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them and how to develop better ones over time. But small

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changes are so important. And I know that people give examples.

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So for example, if you do one little tiny thing in a day to

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move yourself towards creating a better habit, it doesn't mean

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much in that day. But, if you do that one tiny thing over a year,

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it can mean a substantial change in your life and in your

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business, because those little moments add up. And I think if

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you were to distill down both Mr. Clear and Mr. Olsen's

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philosophies around building habits, I think that both of

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them would agree on this particular one. And also really

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say it's at the heart of creating good habits in in

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anything you do at any point in time in your life. And I find

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it's a little bit easier for me to digest if I can do things one

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little piece at a time versus rolling in there and trying to

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do it all at one time, or not realizing how much it builds up

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over time. What do you think Cara?

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No 100%, I think a habit like that is

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something that's going to ensure your staying power in your

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business, I mean, it's gonna give you longevity in the work

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because you're slowly over time building the habit that is going

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to free up your brain and free up your time and free up your

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mind to do the things that you really want to do in your

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business. So an example that I have is I have tried to build a

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habit that anytime I have to send, this is a really simple

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example, but anytime I have to send an email that I've had to

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send more than a couple times to somebody to a new client, if

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it's not already a template in my CRM, I try to save it as a

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template. And when I first started doing that, it wasn't

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something that made a huge impact on my day to day in my

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business. But six months in or a year in, I realized I wasn't

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having to write as many emails every day I was having, oh, this

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I've already got one of these, I've already got one of these,

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already got one of these, because I started developing

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that habit of gathering that over time. And that's that was

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me doing that one simple email at a time, it might be one email

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a week or one email a day, depending upon what came up. And

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now I'm barely having to write fresh new emails to clients.

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Because I've already covered the content, you know repetitively.

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Another thing, I'm teaching Easton right now about saving,

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and he's been wanting to buy video games, and they're kind of

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pricey. And so I told him, you know, you get a little allowance

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every week, if you do your chores, and what you can do is

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you can start putting, like $1 in your piggy bank from your

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allowance, and he's, you know, I'm never gonna have enough

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money, it's never gonna be enough mom to get the video

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game. And the other day, we sat down and counted his money, and

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he had enough money for a video game. And so just a great

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example about it became a habit every week, he put money in and

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it became routine for him. And I was like, well, first of all,

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yay, we taught him something. Finally. Second, you know, he

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can see the results of that habit, that good habit that I

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feel like he has developed now in his life. So yeah, that's

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kind of my two cents on that.

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I think that the example with Easton is

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excellent, because it does show how little tiny steps one baby

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step at a time can make a huge, huge difference. And when you

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were talking about the writing the emails, I can hear our good

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friend Betsy Bird talking in your.

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Yeah, she's applauding right now.

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Yeah, she's like, she's like just giddily happy

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that you took that step and got those things cuz she's a big

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proponent of work smarter, not harder.

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Automate.

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Yeah, automation work smarter, not harder. And I

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have to agree with her on that one, I prefer the working

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smarter, not harder. Yesterday, we talked with a guest that's

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going to be coming on the show that we're excited about

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Future guests

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You guys will have to wait to hear from her.

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But what was fun is while we were on our booking call with

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her, I was able to go into the CRM, which I took time to set up

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and just drop a tag on her name and baboom she had all of the

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guests documentation and the contract and all of that

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meticulous stuff that we need to take care of. So it certainly

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did help being able to get that done. And we had to do those

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things one little baby step at a time in order to get to the

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point that it got to be easy. And I think this is true of

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anything. You know, over time, I've worked with a nutritionist

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and my life as well, that what her suggestion was, is make

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those small changes, like choose this instead of that, but you

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don't have to do all of it in one day. You don't have to like

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completely change your life in order to build a better habit,

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you can build it one simple step at a time. So instead of

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choosing a Dr Pepper choose a glass of water and or you know

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instead of choosing the macaroni and cheese, choose broccoli or

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something and I happen to love broccoli so that one actually is

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not a hard choice for me. Believe it or not. I'm one of

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the weird people in the world that actually dearly loves

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broccoli. I eat it several times a week.

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You are so weird.

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I know it. That's, that's, that's one good

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thing. It's one good habit that I have and it comes to that kind

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of stuff. But the point is, is creating a good habit when

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you're doing it, it comes mindfully, right? Good habits

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that we struggle with, those are the ones. Some of us have good

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habits naturally. Like, I like the taste of broccoli so I eat

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it. It's an easy, it's an easy habit for me to have. But the

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ones where you need this particular podcast episode are

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those habits that don't come so easy, right, so making one small

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change at a time does make a huge difference in in how you

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lessons for people on how to use their CRM and what I recommended

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to the people. And it kind of got kibosh because everybody

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sort of quit networking for a little while, and it was based

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around that, but 30 minutes every morning to follow up with

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your network. So if you just do 30 minutes, every single

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morning, over a year, that's a substantial amount of networking

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time. And it doesn't feel like a lot out of your day. And then

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waboom, you have a really well developed network. Little steps

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one at a time. Now, there's another step in this that can

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really help you in that setting up your environment for success.

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We talked about it with the CRM that Cara and I both gave

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examples of if you set your environment up for success,

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you're much more likely to have it. But Cara has some really

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interesting takes on how to create this environment that's

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beneficial for you.

Cara Taylor Swift:

Well, I can't claim them, they came from the

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book that you mentioned "Atomic Habits" at the beginning, but

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this is kind of my breakdown of them. And I really, really liked

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them, actually. So the book mentioned, they call them the

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Four Laws of Behavior Change. And I thought this was really

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interesting. The first one is make it obvious and set it up so

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that it requires no act of thinking. So you know, setting

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it up so that you like Kim, she was just like, oh, this is no

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problem, I can hop right in, I can do this very quickly, you

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know, you get yourself in that process so that I know this is

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something I don't necessarily want to do, but I'm going to

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make it as easy as possible. And then the next one is make it

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attractive. And this one, I kind of have a personal experience. I

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don't love editing days where I'm doing nothing but sitting

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and I'm having to edit all day long, maybe I'm on a deadline.

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So one of the things that I started doing and maybe this is

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not a great habit to have, but one of the things I started

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doing is that's when I would binge my Netflix or my Hulu

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shows and I would sit and edit with my shows on and I could

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watch and edit at the same time. So now instead of absolutely

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dreading those days I get excited about sitting down and

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going through my editing process and getting it done because

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that's the day that I get to binge I get to Netflix and binge

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I am still working I'm not chilling but it's better than

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it's better than just sitting here in silence working and

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editing. The next thing is you need to make it as easy as

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possible. I struggled here at my house, one of my dogs has pain

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issues. He's an older dog and I'm trying to remember make the

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habit of giving him his pill every single evening and morning

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and I kept his pills like up in this cabinet and I realized that

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it's like if it's out of sight, I'm not going to remember it so

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I started putting the pill bottle and the pill stuffer

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thing that I stick the pill in like the little treat that you

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stuffed it in, there right there together and they're right next

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to the spot where I feed the dogs and so it's like I just

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made it easy like I don't want to think about it now it's so

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obvious that this is something that I need to do and I'm not

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missing or skipping or anything. And then the last part of this

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is make it immediately satisfying. So find some way to

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reward yourself or ensure there's some like happy result

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for knocking that out or walking through that habit. Yeah, those

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are the four those are the four things and I don't know if you

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have any good examples you want to share with that that you use

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in your life.

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oh I do, I have..

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Okay i figured you did.

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Yes, I definitely have comments about about all of

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these things the make it obvious one to me is set the stuff up,

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do your CRMs all of those things. I am another person my

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entire tarot deck so I do 78 detailed drawings on my iPad.

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And I honestly think the reason that the iPad was the tool du

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jour for me for creating stuff is because I can sit in front of

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the television on the sofa with my comfy blanket and my slippers

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on and be able to make my pillow nests,

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Get cozy...

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and work on it. Because then I would look

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forward to it right? If I wasn't as motivated to draw that day

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having the thought of oh, I'm going to turn on a show. And you

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know, Cara and I were talking before we started recording.

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We're so overstimulated with things in our world. Few of us

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can sit still and just watch TV. I mean, that's that feels like

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kind of uncomfortable

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Like your brain needs more stimulation.

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Yeah, it's like an uncomfortable activity,

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That's really sad.

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But why not turn that time into something more

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productive. I mean, to be honest, like editing and

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drawing, I loved doing that, because I would listen to the

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show, I would look up. Now my son got a little irritated when

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he would watch TV with me, because then I would be like,

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wait a minute, what happened? And then he'd be like, you

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really need to pay attention to what's going on. I'm not gonna I

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can't always be here to explain to you why that is. And there

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were times that I had to watch the episode again, to go, oh,

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that's where that happened. So I would miss stuff because I get

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lost in my drawing. But it does, it makes it more attractive. And

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you know what, there's nothing wrong with using that to be able

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to help you get shit done. GSD get shit done. So yeah, making

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it attractive, making it fun, making it comfortable, making it

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something I know people who listen to music, not everybody's

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into watching TV, but they listen to music, and it brings

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your energy level up

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or audiobooks.

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There's a ton of ways. Whatever floats your boat

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easy is important. That's a pretty good one. The other one I

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That's inspiring.

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wanted to talk about was the making it immediately

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satisfying. So I listened to a podcast years ago, and I cannot

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remember the name of the person who did this had this

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suggestion. But as humans, we love the little reward were

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started from the time that we're in kindergarten to learn about

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getting a gold star. So we like that. And there's a reason,

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folks why slot machines make so much money in Vegas or anywhere

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else that there's a slot machine. We love to pull the

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lever and hear the noise. It is it hits the dopamine centers in

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our brain it like whites, all of our nerves on fire. And we

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absolutely love that. So when you're thinking of that reward,

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the reward can be something monumentally simple that hits

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those notes for you. This particular coach on the podcast

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recommended that you go to the store and you get yourself a

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Yeah, it's a very inspiring thing. And in our

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glass, it has to be glass container of some kind, and some

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type of an object that small that will make a noise when it

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hits the container. My choice in this was a glass canister that

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was really pretty and little blue rocks, like they put at the

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bottom of aquariums or people will glue on to stuff. And when

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I complete a task that I'm trying to build a habit around,

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I drop the blue little rock into the container, it makes this

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satisfying noise as it goes in. And it lights all of those same

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things on fire somatically in my body, and it's like this reward

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that I get to move something over there. It's the same reason

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a lot of people love to put checkmarks on things. Because

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you have that. So it doesn't have to be like oh, I have this

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habit. And now my reward is something complicated. It can be

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as simple as getting yourself a glass container and some pretty

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little bubbly rocks and dropping them in. And then again, this

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goes back to number one, you'll see those small changes really

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accumulate over time like Easton sighs money grow in his piggy

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bank, you get to see what you have accomplished. Fill that

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container all of the way up. And then when you have it at the

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end, it's important one more story with that. So the touched

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by a horse community there was a graduate of that program, and I

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think her name is Anna, she's an amazing coach. But when she

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first started her practice, what she did was filled up one of

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little group, we have 100 Square challenge. I'm showing this to

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those containers with match sticks. So it represented the

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fire that she wanted to start in her business. So every time that

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she worked with a client or talked to a client, she would

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Cara we're supposed to do 100 sales conversations, but we have

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drop a match stick into a container. And then at her

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graduation, I believe it was she presented that to her mentor and

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said here's the fire that I'm ready to start. So I found that

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absolutely beautiful. So Anna, that was a fantastic idea.

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a little page and we put an X on it every single time we have a

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sales conversation. And this is a huge reward. I mean, just as

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simple as this crazy little paper that sits on my desk and

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every time I have a sales conversation, I X off a box and

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the goal is to get 100 of them Xed off by July the first. You

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know how many of you out there struggle with sales, right? That

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is a constant complaint that we hear I'm not good at follow up.

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I'm not good at my sales process. I don't know anything

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about it. Make it fun. Give yourself a reward for it.

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What you're saying here that I keep picking up on to is don't

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put the reward at the end of the goal. Like where the goal is

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completed, you should have something there of course, but

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you need to be rewarding yourself throughout the process.

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Like every little task you complete towards that goal. I

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think about it, like when someone's talking about all

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right, when I lose the five pounds, I'm gonna go get a new

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pair of jeans, but it's like, you know, you've got to, you've

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got to reward all of the healthy happy steps that you're taking

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every single day, the small changes that you've made every

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single day or over time to get to that end result that end

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habit. So I think that's the biggest thing that you're

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talking about is reward yourself during the process, have a

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reason to keep going things that keep you motivated, not just the

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big end goal is the reward.

Kimberly Beer:

Absolutely. Because to be honest, that's

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where habits fail, right? It's they fail in the day to day. And

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that's because it doesn't feel in those little tiny changes,

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just like Easton saying, I'm never going to make enough money

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to be able to buy a video game. And especially when you're

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building a new habit that's hard for you, it's really hard to see

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that from day one. But if you can watch the accumulation

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through a glass canister, or you can watch your I mean, honestly,

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glass piggy bank would probably be awesome, because you can see

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the change starting to grow up in there and the dollars or

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whatever you're putting in it. If you can watch that happen. It

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hits those notes for you all along the way. And it makes you

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want to come back and do it every single day. The next thing

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we want to talk to you about is motivation and willpower.

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Because on those days when the blue ball dropping into the

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glass canister doesn't seem to be quite cutting it for you

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don't beat yourself up about that. Willpower is not always

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the thing that you need to call on to get something done. In

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other words, it's not a curative effect, in my opinion, and you

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lacking that is not always your fault. There's a lot of

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distractions, there's a lot of things in the world, there's a

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lot of things in your own background that may be trauma

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related that are pulling on you and to blame any kind of failure

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about creating a new habit on yourself is counterproductive,

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in my opinion. What do you think about that, Cara?

Cara Taylor Swift:

Well, this is an area where I think a lot of

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people end up beating themselves up. All of this other stuff

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aside, if people aren't building habits and getting to a place

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where they've got longevity in a project, or they are finishing

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things that they set their hopes on. That, a lot of times it

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comes down to them feeling like I'm just not motivated, I have

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no willpower. And it's another area to feel like a failure like

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you've messed up in your life. And I just think that's not the

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case. It means that like you said, maybe you have some things

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that you need to look at what is making you think it's your

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willpower, where is that coming from and do some work around

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that and I know we've talked about mindset and that sort of

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thing on the show and we've got some other great episodes coming

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up. where we talk about mindset, but I just I hate any area where

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people are saying to themselves, I failed again, and this is why.

Cara Taylor Swift:

And they're blaming themselves for not being able to, to get to

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that place that they want to get to.

Kimberly Beer:

Yeah, and I think this is a target rich

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environment for that particular attitude. I think there are a

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lot of professionals that say, here's the way to whip up your

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willpower and your motivation. And that's where I tend to part

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ways with a lot of the habit building gurus is because I know

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there are things that you can't willpower your way through that

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become obstacles in you building this habit. So if you've

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listened to this far into this program, you're one of those

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people out there in the world that probably struggles with

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some habits that you would really like to change or make

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better in your business and in your life for that matter. And

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change is hard. I don't care who, you know, you can say, oh,

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it's easy, you just do this, you just do one little thing over

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time. And there's those four things, the four things make it

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easier. But folks, when it comes down to it, sometimes all of

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that doesn't matter in the moment, because there's a bigger

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obstacle that you need to work your way through. And in order

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to be able to get to the point where you can get to the Four

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Laws of Behavior Change, and where you can start making those

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small steps. And it's not your fault if that obstacle is big

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enough that you need help, or you need time, to be able to

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dismantle it, set it off to the side, and then come back and

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tackle this habit that you want to create in your life. And

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blaming it all back on you is of no use to you, or any of your

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forward progress. And boy, am I ever learning that lesson in my

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life. Right in this minute. As I'm sitting here talking about

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it, I have things going on in my life where I've run into one of

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those gargantuan obstacles that it feels like it's blocking

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every single path that I'm on. And I am in the process of

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dismantling it one brick at a time. No matter what habits I

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have, that I'm trying to build until that obstacle is

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dismantled enough, blaming and shaming me for not being able to

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create that habit is doing nothing but damage.

Cara Taylor Swift:

I feel that so and I know you and I were

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talking yesterday, and we were talking about my type and how I

Cara Taylor Swift:

might have a big goal that sounds like something really

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awesome that I'd like to do. But if I can't see a clear path

Cara Taylor Swift:

there, then I write it off sometimes as something that's

Cara Taylor Swift:

unachievable for myself. So for me thinking about it in terms of

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the habits around that, and setting the course, you know, it

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makes me think one of the quotes in the book that I really liked

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are, you know, goals are good for setting the direction, but

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systems are the process that leads to the results. And the

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systems are the habits that you build. And so for me thinking

Cara Taylor Swift:

about, like, I've got some big things, you know, on my goals

Cara Taylor Swift:

list, sometimes I struggle to see the path there, you know,

Cara Taylor Swift:

and so thinking about those systems that will get me there,

Cara Taylor Swift:

and those habits that I can create to get myself there make

Cara Taylor Swift:

me feel a little better about it.

Kimberly Beer:

Yeah, those little small steps, the little

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small steps that get you to the place you can be. And for those

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of you who do really struggle with depression and own a

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business, you know, this is a lifelong fight for me with

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depression. And I can tell you back when I was really deeply

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depressed at the beginning of creating this business, some

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days, all I could get up and do was one small step. And that one

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small step did end up leading to something big. And it made me

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feel good, it was like I got one small step, just one small step

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at a time. And if that one small step is all you can take today,

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count it a win, drop your blue bubble in the glass box, and,

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you know, enjoy that dopamine hit for a moment. And then if

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you need to go do something else and be away from that habit.

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There is absolutely positively nothing wrong with that. So

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let's normalize, taking care of yourself and making things

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positive. I hope people have gotten some good use out of this

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episode. The habits that you create in your business really

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do move it forward. And another good thing I want to mention to

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you guys is that even though I have that gargantuan obstacle in

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my way, the fact that I created good habits in my business

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before that obstacle came up in my life's path means that I am

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able to, without a lot of stress, be able to concentrate

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on my obstacle versus worry about everything else that's

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going on. So the good habits do pay off even when you have to

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break the good habit to go work on something else.

Cara Taylor Swift:

That's it for This episode, we hope you guys

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enjoyed it. So the big three Recap, you know, make those

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small changes over time to build the habit like we've talked

Cara Taylor Swift:

about set yourself up for success by designing your

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environment to support your habit. And three, think about

Cara Taylor Swift:

motivation and willpower, but remind yourself that it's not

Cara Taylor Swift:

your fault oftentimes, and that you know, it's okay if you need

Cara Taylor Swift:

to think about those obstacles that are in your way. And I like

Cara Taylor Swift:

to think about this as when it comes to your animal based

Cara Taylor Swift:

business, the good habits that you create are going to ensure

Cara Taylor Swift:

your staying power, they're going to be what keeps you in

Cara Taylor Swift:

this business long term, there are going to be the things that

Cara Taylor Swift:

pull you through and that free up your brain so that you can do

Cara Taylor Swift:

your very best work and keep you on track. So just keep that in

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mind. We hope you guys are all out there today doing something

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even if it's something super small in your business to create

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that good habit and get to your end game. So that's it if you

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guys hop over to Instagram and Facebook, you'll find us at The

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