Thoughts on diet, nutrition and exercise for better health.

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Trick yourself skinny.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I'm going to reveal a secret of mine that isn't that big of a secret. It isn't something you haven't heard before, but maybe you need to hear it again. Because I always need to hear it again and again and again.

That is the only progress that I've ever been able to make in my life. Specifically in the areas of health, in the areas of wealth creation, and building businesses, in all these different areas that don't necessarily come naturally.

I've had to resort to this one thing, and it has to do with tricking yourself, how do you trick yourself to be skinny?

How do you trick yourself to be healthy?

How do you trick yourself to make more money?

How do you trick yourself to do any of those things?

I've only found one thing that is relatively foolproof. The problem is how do you get how do you put everything in place to make that one thing work. But if you understand that one thing, you at least have a direction, you have a strategy you could work with, I haven't found anything else that works.

That one thing is the development of a habit. A lot of people say that and it's a really nice, you know, juicy piece, and there's all these books about it and everything else now.

But some of the books that have come out in the last 20 or so years, I think really pin the nail on the donkey. It's very, very close.

Many of them have pieces of it and if you read enough of them, you'll eventually get something that'll work for you. But I'm not saying you need to go out and read books if you can just get this one concept.

Concept, I've talked about it before I first read it in a book called The Slight Edge, which is a short book and it's a good one. Let me see, do I have it right here.

This isn't a review for that book, so we'll talk about that book another time.

The basic idea is if you can take one tiny little step, as the smallest possible measurable step in the direction of, let's say health if you can take one tiny little step on a daily basis, until the point to where it becomes natural to where you don't have to think about it.

It should take a very small effort to begin with but if it has zero effort over the long run, you've created a habit, it takes even more effort to want to stop it not want to stop it.

You may want to stop it but it's easier not to it's easier just to do it. I've talked about this before, this is how I started doing daily podcasts, okay, it just became something that I do.

It's something that I feel uncomfortable if I haven't done unless I'm in a very like I've said before about the only scenario is if I'm in a very different location with different scenario happen, if I'm sleep deprived, anything like that, I might mess, it might mess with my habit.

But otherwise, I have to almost intentionally not do it, in order to not do it, I have to intentionally turn it off because it's become such a big part of what I do.

This has happened with bootload the food that I eat. The problem is a lot of these things can swing back in the other direction, if you allow them to slowly inch their way back, you can build a habit backwards.

But if you intentionally build a habit forwards in a very,