Expedition Ola

At what point do you make a shift? How do you know if you’re being a quitter vs making a smart shift in your life? Listen to this episode to find out how Covid-19 and the Keto Diet helped me answer that question.

Have you ever tried to quit something cold turkey and totally failed? I know I have. Instead, you need to hack your bad habits and replace them with good ones. Find out how in this episode!

So what happens if you fail? This podcast episode talks about the important concept of the accumulation of successes and failures. Tune in to learn how I handled my most recent failure.

In this episode I explain the inspiration behind the title of my podcast, Swell Habits, and what it means to me. Tune in for a few minutes of motivation on becoming the best version of yourself through habit development!

There I was about 4 solid weeks into consistently working out when all of a sudden the “whirlwind” aka. Life threw my a curveball. That curveball was being diagnosed with COVID-19. Find out how I handled the news and how I plan to stay focused on my habits.

You’ve got a caveman brain. We all do. That means that we naturally respond better to short term rewards. The problem is, often times the results were looking for when we try to create a new habit don’t come right away. That’s why it’s important to design your habit development process with short term rewards. Find out how I learned that lesson in this episode!

When you’re trying to develop a new habit, slip ups are inevitable. The key to success over the long term is to avoid going down the rabbit hole. Tune in to find out what I mean!

While on vacation I had a huge epiphany. I realized that something I like to call “Predetermined Decision Making” is the number one indicator of a persons eventual success or failure with habit development. Don’t miss this one!

What do butterflies have to do with habits? It all stems from an idea called the butterfly effect. In this episode I talk about how to identify the high leverage habits that will make the development of other important habits easier or even unnecessary.

Have you ever woke up determined to stick to your habit and then by midday you’ve already caved? That’s because you’re depending solely on your willpower and most people’s will power sucks, even the people you think are super disciplined. Environment Prep is a trick that 99.99% of those “disciplined” people use to stick to their good habits. Learn this one secret and you’ll join the ranks of the “Disciplined”!