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Video 8 in our series on James Clear's book, Atomic Habits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6U8PXy2UU
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Habit tracking, does it actually work?
Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.
Today, we're going back to Atomic Habits, by James Clear, and we're talking about the fourth section of the book, called the fourth law, to make it satisfying.
This includes multiple chapters but each one goes to that fourth step in building a habit. And so just to review for those of you who may be coming in on this or if you just need a refresher, there are four basic laws, four basic steps that James Clear, discusses in green a habit, the first one is to make it obvious.
The second one is to make it attractive.
The third one is to make it easy. And here's the fourth one, make it satisfying.
I'll tell you that there's a lot of good stuff in here that I highlighted and have gone back to over and over again, in this chapter. But I wanted to talk about one main thing that I think was the most important.
That main thing is habit tracking, what is habit tracking? Okay, so if you're trying to get a habit going, one of the main things you want to do is start tracking it. This goes back to the concept.
The last couple of times, we were talking about being aware, and how awareness really makes habits work.
You really have to be aware of what's going on for one thing, it tells you what type of habits to go for. But it also will help you to just automatically if you're aware of what's going on, you're going to get better in any given area.
The same thing is true of habit tracking I'm looking for, you could see me if you're watching, you see me looking down the book here, I've got it right here. And I'm looking I just lost my spot. When it comes to habit tracking.
This is within the second. Let me see here, I believe it's, it's within the second chapter in this section called, How to stick with good habits every day.
Yep, here it is, how to keep your habits on track.
This is a big deal. In fact, he goes back to the concept of not breaking the chain, which is what we've discussed it here before when we were talking about the book, consistency chain for network marketing is a network marketing-specific book, but the concept is true.
No matter what you're doing, even if you're not even doing business, if you understand that habits happen across the board, then you can take this that the idea is if you can build up a habit, consciously, purposefully build up a good habit.
You do it on a daily basis, let's say it's an easy way to be able to think about this as if it's daily. If you're doing something every single day, then the idea is to not break that chain is that every day, you're able to put another link in the chain and another link and another link.
As soon as you miss one, you've broken the chain, you kind of have to start over with that count the well. And one thing he says here is that it's going to happen. I mean, you're going to break the chain at some point that you can't get around it, life will get end up getting in the way at some point. And that's no big deal.
He says no matter how consistent you are with your habits, it's inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point perfection is not possible. Before long an emergency will pop up, you get sick or you have to travel for work or your family needs a little more of your time.
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By Brian J. PomboVideo 8 in our series on James Clear's book, Atomic Habits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6U8PXy2UU
Transcription
Habit tracking, does it actually work?
Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.
Today, we're going back to Atomic Habits, by James Clear, and we're talking about the fourth section of the book, called the fourth law, to make it satisfying.
This includes multiple chapters but each one goes to that fourth step in building a habit. And so just to review for those of you who may be coming in on this or if you just need a refresher, there are four basic laws, four basic steps that James Clear, discusses in green a habit, the first one is to make it obvious.
The second one is to make it attractive.
The third one is to make it easy. And here's the fourth one, make it satisfying.
I'll tell you that there's a lot of good stuff in here that I highlighted and have gone back to over and over again, in this chapter. But I wanted to talk about one main thing that I think was the most important.
That main thing is habit tracking, what is habit tracking? Okay, so if you're trying to get a habit going, one of the main things you want to do is start tracking it. This goes back to the concept.
The last couple of times, we were talking about being aware, and how awareness really makes habits work.
You really have to be aware of what's going on for one thing, it tells you what type of habits to go for. But it also will help you to just automatically if you're aware of what's going on, you're going to get better in any given area.
The same thing is true of habit tracking I'm looking for, you could see me if you're watching, you see me looking down the book here, I've got it right here. And I'm looking I just lost my spot. When it comes to habit tracking.
This is within the second. Let me see here, I believe it's, it's within the second chapter in this section called, How to stick with good habits every day.
Yep, here it is, how to keep your habits on track.
This is a big deal. In fact, he goes back to the concept of not breaking the chain, which is what we've discussed it here before when we were talking about the book, consistency chain for network marketing is a network marketing-specific book, but the concept is true.
No matter what you're doing, even if you're not even doing business, if you understand that habits happen across the board, then you can take this that the idea is if you can build up a habit, consciously, purposefully build up a good habit.
You do it on a daily basis, let's say it's an easy way to be able to think about this as if it's daily. If you're doing something every single day, then the idea is to not break that chain is that every day, you're able to put another link in the chain and another link and another link.
As soon as you miss one, you've broken the chain, you kind of have to start over with that count the well. And one thing he says here is that it's going to happen. I mean, you're going to break the chain at some point that you can't get around it, life will get end up getting in the way at some point. And that's no big deal.
He says no matter how consistent you are with your habits, it's inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point perfection is not possible. Before long an emergency will pop up, you get sick or you have to travel for work or your family needs a little more of your time.