How to build habits that help you reach your goals and build your best life, with mindset and business coach JM Ryerson

If you’re a human being, chances are you’ve failed to reach at least one goal in your lifetime — if not several. But when it comes to actually achieving what you set out to achieve, your daily habits and rituals can make an outsized impact. So, how do you consistently incorporate those healthy routines that move you forward? How do you keep yourself out of the rut of bad habits?

 

Our guest this week is someone who has mastered the art of habit-building. JM Ryerson is an international speaker, mindset and business coach, host of Let’s Go Win podcast, and best-selling author of two books. He helps high-performing leaders define and execute their individual leadership styles in order to grow the impact of their businesses.

 

Listen to the full episode for more on JM’s two and a half hour morning routine, the principles he teaches his coaching clients, the one-word question someone has to ask themselves if they haven’t hit their goals yet, simple ways to integrate healthy routines into your daily life, and more.  

 

Here’s a Glimpse of What You’ll Learn: 

 

• More about JM’s background, including his time building 3 companies in the financial services world, and how he got into coaching

• Some of the key coaching principles JM uses to help his clients transform their lives

• One of the most important questions you can ask yourself if you’re stuck somewhere and aren’t yet where you want to be

• The power of habits and rituals when it comes to accomplishing your goals, plus JM’s advice for integrating more consistency into your life

• Why JM says a pen and piece of paper is the best form of therapy available

• How JM keeps track of his daily routines to keep himself accountable 

• The two things that someone always has control over

• Why JM sees himself as a “lifestyle coach”, instead of a “life coach

• How to keep yourself on track even when life happens, and why he integrates pieces of his morning routine throughout the rest of his day 

• Whether or not you should use calendar blocks and scheduling in order to keep yourself accountable to your goals and habits

• What meditation means to JM and why it’s so important for him to integrate into his life 

• How to keep perspective and remain present with your loved ones, even when you don’t feel like you have any energy to give

• How JM measures success with his clients and in his personal life

• The 7 areas of JM’s life that he checks in with regularly to make sure he’s reaching his goals and living his best life

 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode: 

• Let’s Go Win

• JM Ryerson on LinkedIn

• “Legendary: A simple playbook for building and living a legendary life, and being remembered as a legend” by Tommy Breedlove

• “Let’s Go Win: The Keys To Living Your Best Life” by JM Ryerson

• “Champion’s Daily Playbook: Let’s Go Win!” by JM Ryerson

• “The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success” by Darren Hardy

• “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” by Charles Duhigg

• “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek

• “Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork” by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

• “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

• 40 Strategy

• Contact 40 Strategy

• Carl J. Cox on LinkedIn