S5: 25: 2018 Highlights and Lessons Learned
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
Release Date: 12/31/2018
The Accordion Method: How to Improve Productivity & Creativity
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"The successful person is just the average person, focused." Why are deadlines important? Deadlines create pressure. Pressure creates focus and concentration, which are essential components of productivity and creativity. The accordion method, much like the whimsical musical instrument, works by creating pressure and then releasing it. The accordion is a terrific model for how anyone can intentionally use pressure to be more focused and productive. The challenge for many people is that they don't appreciate the value of pressure, largely because it creates discomfort. Thus, few people impose...
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Strengths vs. Weaknesses
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"So many Goo-Roos preach the idea that you should just focus on your strengths. The reason it's called 'Personal Development' is it involves both—improving your weaknesses and capitalizing on strengths." "Shouldn't people just focus on what they are good at?" Someone asked MG this question when he recommended tracking fitness habits even if fitness isn't someone's strength. It's crucial to point out that The Habit Factor® methodology is both a specific process to develop habits by following P.A.R.R., and a general framework that allows the user to identify their goal along with the...
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EFFORT!
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"Effort is the special ingredient that helps one to develop discipline. P.A.R.R. is the process that reduces the effort." Effort, as a concept, is so significant that it's part of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path. While there are very few things we can control directly, our effort is one of them. In a post-game press conference, pursuing his 4th NBA title, Steph Curry reminded the press, "The one thing I can control is my effort." What makes the topic interesting is that it's the desire to be lazy—to put in less effort— that often sparks innovation and creativity. Exhibit A, B, and C: The...
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How to Use Scheduling to Build Habits
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"An essential ingredient to scheduling and habit building is experimenting." MG and Jen discuss this week's all important topic: How to use scheduling to best cultivate habits. In short, the day and time you choose to cultivate a habit largely depends upon the habit itself. If the habit is creative, such as "writing" you may want to set aside the times of day you are most creative. If the habit is exercise related, than you'll want to identify the best times and days you'll have the time and energy. By following P.A.R.R. (Plan, Act, Record & Reassess), and identifying the "targets" days (and...
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Rituals vs. Habits
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"A ritual is simply a series of habits." MG and Jen discuss a particularly interesting relationship between habits and rituals that is rarely, if ever, talked about. Consider the times you have sudden insight; driving, showering, napping, sleeping, jogging, or lifting weights. Performing habits tends to trigger creative insight, perhaps due to the brain wave frequency in which habit operates—the Alpha and Theta levels. By definintion, habits require little or no conscious thought. This simple aspect is what frees up one's mind to allocate resources elsewhere—a space that allows the...
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Festina Lente
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"Be quick, but don't hurry." ~Coach Wooden Festina Lente: Augustus, the Roman emperor, thought so much of the adage that its symbol ended up on an ancient Roman coin—a dolphin wrapped around an anchor. What is Festina Lente? Festina Lente is the wise and powerful reminder that our time is precious and limited. Thus, it's imperative to move (and live) with a sense of urgency while at the same time remaining balanced and calm. Legendary basketball coach John Wooden, who likely rephrased the sentiment, used to tell his players, "Be quick, but don't hurry." Quickness is essential, but hurrying...
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The Dishwasher 2!
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"How well you load the dishes determines the quality of the wash." Once again, we revisit the dishwasher in this episode, "The Dishwasher 2." The idea of proper dishwasher loading calls to mind the GIGO concept. GIGO simply means Garbage In, Garbage Out. GIGO originated in the programming world, and the idea applies to many other aspects of our lives. Consider your fitness level relative to your exercise and diet: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Many famous scientists, spiritualists, and philosophers contend that the same concept applies to the quality of your thinking and your life's results:...
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Habitstrength™ Dammit!
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"It costs $0.00 to become a master of habit and skill development. Understanding how to cultivate habitstrength™ is your first key." ~Grunburg Forgive the swearing! For 12-plus years, Martin has taught and preached that habit development for humans has little to do with Cue, Routine, Reward – aka the "Habit-Loop" – and much more to do with intention, action, and reflection. The "Habit Loop" concept originated after a study of rodents. Unfortunately, the well-intended "Habit-Loop" advice has proliferated all over the internet, yet it provides HUMANS with very little understanding of how...
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6 Inches
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"Golf is a game of inches and the most important are the six inches between your ears." ~Arnold Palmer Much like golf, LIFE is often a game of inches. It's the "six inches" betwen our ears that we tell ourselves all sorts of stories. Stories about ourselves and the world at large. These stories tend to reveal themselves in our decisions, actions and results. At any given moment, one could be telling themselves an infinite number of stories. Yet, most of us aren't too discerning about which ones consume our attention. Almost all breakthroughs in goal achievment and personal tranformation,...
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Ten Years from Now
Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg
"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now." ~Confucius How happy would you be if nothing changed over the next ten years? How would you like to develop physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, spiritually, financially, professionally? Who is responsible for those changes? This quick-hitter H2G "tweener" episode will have you appreciating that NOW is the best time to plant the seeds to help make your ten-year goals a reality. The years are going to pass by anyway. Only you can identify who you'd like to be, where you'd like to go and, what you'd...
info_outline"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates
Habits2Goals welcomes in the New Year with a look back at 2018. It's a time to reflect on a brilliant year, with thoughts, highlights and lessons learned.
As important as it is to look forward and set goals, it is just as crucial to reflect. And reflecting and assessing is, of course, part of PARR (Plan, Act, Record, Reassess) and habit building.
MG looks back on his personal 2018 highlights and reflects on the importance of learning new skills and putting yourself out there -- reinforcing the idea that "life is an experiment, and the more experiments you make, the better."
Are YOU viewing life as an experiment? Listen in for some inspiration to live YOUR best life in 2019 as you reflect back on your accomplishments of 2018.
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