Designing Your Personal Habit Recipe
In this episode of The Habit Chef Podcast, we’ll learn how decision fatigue is like human kryptonite and how we can use habits to overcome it.
Listen in, and you’ll learn how we sabotage ourselves without even knowing it, why decision fatigue causes us to procrastinate and make poor decisions, how habits preserve mental energy by allowing us to take action automatically, and how we can setup simple habits to help us make better decisions.
Last year, I served on the team that brought TEDx to Corpus Christi and met dozens of amazing people along the way. Through countless planning meetings, one team member stood out for his incessant energy and positivity. I’d honestly never heard him say he was tired, yet I knew he kept an extreme pace of work and service.
Recently, we connected to discuss the power of rituals. I immediately knew I needed to profile Sean to share the carefully crafted rituals he’s developed to provide an abundant reservoir of positive energy that allows him to wholeheartedly serve his family, his clients, and his community.
For many years, I operated under the illusion that I could make decisions based on how I felt and was simultaneously frustrated that I wasn’t getting the results I was looking for. I never realized the two were connected.
We wait to take action until we feel motivated, and we rely on those feelings to feed our willpower. It’s why we feel like working out after an inspiring movie or eat well for a few meals after visiting with a friend that’s lost weight recently.
Then what? We fail at continuing to take action. The feeling doesn’t last.
But there’s something else that works even better.
In this episode of The Habit Chef Podcast, we’ll talk through the importance of doing what you want to be, and the three simple ways to get started today.
Listen in, and you’ll learn how you can be anything just by doing the actions, how knowing your why helps you reclaim your urgency, why you shouldn’t buy things to support a new goal, and how just trying to take a small step makes a big difference.
As modern women, we often feel the need to invent new strategies for dealing with life’s struggles and setbacks. This Mother’s Day, I want to share the surprising story of the matriarch of our family, my Nana. (June Petty, to the rest of the world.) I’d heard hints of these stories all of my life, but only recently did we sit down to really explore them.
As I learn more, I’m stunned by her courage, tenacity, and resilience, and I think you will be too. Whether leaving college to save her sister’s position at work or beating breast cancer in 1959, Nana’s stories reflect timeless wisdom all of us can apply.
There are lots of things I want to be.
Healthy. A writer. A coach. A good mom. A traveler. More faithful. More consistent.
Maybe you have a list too.
When I talk about them, “someday” usually precedes the sentence. Maybe you do that too.
In this episode of The Habit Chef Podcast, we’ll explore the role of identity in habit development using James Clear’s latest writings. We’ll also focus on specific ways you can use this approach.
Listen in, and you’ll learn why proving your identity is more important than results, especially at first, how to use this approach to start your habit snowball, how to work backwards to select your tiny habits, and why it’s important to recognize propaganda and choose your identity instead of automatically following the default option.
Her firm’s bio describes her as a human sparkplug – one part economist, one part futurist, and one part humorist. I can’t think of a better way to describe Rebecca Ryan.
After hearing her speak over two years ago, I knew I’d met a true thought leader and made sure to follow her work. (It didn’t hurt that she’d also been a pro basketball player.) Recently, her Kickstarter project to finish funding her second book raised 170% of it’s goal. She calls it an “open letter about America, its future, and how we can make it work better for more people.”
With that, I knew I had to profile Rebecca to show you exactly how she works to change our world. I think you’ll enjoy the raw honesty about her journey and the detailed systems she uses to keep herself on track.
For the last two days, I’ve dreaded writing this. Not the writing part exactly, but the self assessment and accountability part.
Right now, it’s overwhelming to even think about the projects I’m juggling and what’s needed for each. The days are hard. I’m tired. Life happens, and I just want to crawl back under the covers and hide. Several times over the years, I have.
But this time feels different. I’m realizing that I didn’t pick this journey, but that it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be. And writing it down seems to be part of the voyage.
Perhaps there’s some part of this monthly report that will be meaningful to you, and perhaps continuing to put one foot in front of the other is exactly what I need to do too.
So here we go . . . one foot . . . two . . .
In this episode of The Habit Chef Podcast, we’ll experiment with one of the secret weapons of behavioral psychology – rituals. Often misunderstood, we’ll explore how we can use them to do our best work.
Listen in, and you’ll learn what to do when you’re staring at a blank document or spreadsheet, how to overcome dread and fear to do work that matters, why you need a pre-game ritual just like the pros, and how to capture and use momentum to add habits easily.
