Michael Breen – Habit Hacking

If You’ve Had A Difficult Time Changing Your Life, Don’t Blame Yourself. Change Your Habits.

You are dissatisfied with your current results…

You know you’re capable of much more but can’t seem to ‘turn it on’…

You’ve read a ton of books, attended a bunch of courses, got motivated, tried a bunch of things but results were … far from stellar!

In fact, largely your life looks much the same. You’ve never really cracked how to create real BREAKTHROUGH CHANGE.

Am I close?

It’s not just that we have good habits or bad habits. It’s the impact they have on our lives.

Our health, our careers, our relationships, our sense of well being.

You see in any area of your life where you’d like to be more successful, there are specific habits that people who are successful use.

If you want to be more successful, healthier, in better shape, make more money, be happier etc., there are habits that you use will give you that.

However there is a powerful force that literally switches off part of your brain, so you can’t see when a harmful habit is working.

It’s like you look out and think you correctly observe the world, but you’re looking through rose tinted glasses and can’t see how key bad habits, are holding you back, blocking the path, obstructing your way.

“In truth, the the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others, is I will form good habits…”

-Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the World)

Common Bad Habits

1. Snacking & over-eating all the time

2. Spending too much time watching TV

4. Sleeping in

5. Checking your email several times a day

6. Checking social media too often

7. Skipping the gym

8. Procrastinating

3. Staying up late

9. Drinking too much alcohol

10. Not following through on what you said

Take a look at the past week.

Think about it…

How in shape, or out of shape you are… is a result of your habits.

How happy or unhappy you are… a result of your habits.

How successful or unsuccessful you are… a result of your habits.

How much money you have or lack of… a result of your habits.

Bad Habits Harm You

As healthy & fit as you’d like to be?

As energetic and focused as you’d like to be?

As happy and fulfilled as you’d like to be?

As successful as you’d like to be?

Earning as much money as you’d like to be?

Enjoying deep and rich friendships and relationships?

Having the impact and influence you want?

Experiencing the life you truly want?

Be entirely honest. No one but yourself needs to know…

Are you consistently producing the kinds of results and outcomes you want for you life? Are you…

Take any area of your life you’d like to be more successful in; business, career, relationships, dating, health etc.

Chances are you already have a pretty good idea of what it takes to be successful or you know someone who does.

For example, if your goal is to lose weight and get fit, you already know about the benefits of exercising regularly and improving your diet.

If you want to progress in your career and make more money, you probably have a decent idea of the kind of professional development, courses and relationships that can help get you there.

If you want to become more confident and outgoing, you likely know what kind of resources and people who can help.

Until one day it drops silently from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind, where the new program is ready to operate without awareness and automatically.

The world is awash with information.

When you realise this the question becomes what kind of habits do you have?

Because…

Think about all the self-help books, audio programs, seminars and TV shows. Most people who read self-help books, listen to audios, get excited at seminars and watch self-help TV programs fail to make real and lasting change.

Perhaps you’ve been there yourself. I certainly know I have.

The reason why is most self-help programs focus almost entirely on what to do. Acting as if you come in to the course like an empty USB stick ready for an upload and simply exposing you to what to do is enough to create a change.

But you know that it’s not.

Very few, if any programs teach you how to consistently do what is needed to be successful.

Sure, you can tinker with your beliefs.

You can tweak your values. You can listen to mind re-programming audios.

You can try every change technique in the latest ‘new’ self-help book.

But if it doesn’t change your habituated response, the change it won’t last..

Your habits are like a cable.

You weave a strand to it every time you use it. And what get’s practiced becomes permanent.

The more you do it, the stronger the habit becomes.