How to Install Habits That LAST

In today's episode, Robin Sharma will walk you through some of the major laws used by many of the world’s most successful athletes, artists and entrepreneurs to install the habits of deep success, peak health and high prosperity.
 
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One of the things that causes us not to follow through on the courses we start or the commitments we make is as soon as we hit the first bit of resistance, we give up. Our amygdala, right, the reptilian brain, our amygdala starts to scream and we go back into the old patterns and the old ways of thinking and behaving. And what you wanna do is get to a place where every single time you run into resistance, you witness the resistance and you go, ah. There's my amygdala. There is my voice of fear. There is my internal saboteur. But you're not your saboteur. You are so much more than that. And you actually move through your sabotage. One way to do it is you get a box, maybe it's a shoe box, maybe you build a box. I'm sure you can find a box. And you've filled it with evidence of you being brave. Maybe it's a picture of you giving the speech that frightens you to death. Maybe it's... a rejection letter that you disbelieved and you continued and you followed through on your dream. I don't know if you know my backstory, but when I did The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, it was self-published in a copy shop. My mom was my editor. People laughed at me. And I still remember going to my first editor who read The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, and I've actually since framed the rejection letter. But basically, he mocked my talents. He said, writing looks easy. It's really, really hard. He said, your characters don't amount to anything. No one will ever be moved by this book. As you might know, but that book has sold millions and millions of copies in over 75 countries across the world and more than anything else, it has transformed so many lives. So you wanna fill this box with evidence of you being brave. And anytime you feel discouraged, you look at that box, which is maybe at your office or maybe it's on your bedside table, and you reconvince yourself. and you find yourself pouring that neurotransmitter of dopamine into your brain versus the fear chemical, which is cortisol, and you feel strong again. And part of being a game changer and a legendary producer is being a merchant of hope. You never want to lose the emotion of hope pulsing through your veins, and the bravery box is a great daily ritual or regular routine to keep you focused on you getting to world class. Daily habit number two to be a game-changer. This comes from a piece I read in the Harvard Business Review, and it was all about small wins. There's this theory called the small win theory that has been proven by research. Bottom line, the researchers asked these managers in this one cohort or this one study group to keep a regular progress diary that recorded their small wins at the end of every day. The other group didn't. The conclusion of the research was... The managers in the businesses that kept this, what I calla progress diary at the end of every day where they recorded little wins, small wins, tiny acts of greatness. Like, you know what? I celebrated a teammate, I turned off the technology and I focused on the project that was making a difference. I went for a walk at lunchtime. Whatever their small win was, it released that pharmacy of mastery within their brain. Right? The serotonin, BDNF, the dopamine, which is the motivational neurotransmitter. And because of that burst of energy and that burst of confidence that started cascading through their days with consistency, those people were by far much more productive, much more creative, and much more optimistic than the other study group. So what I'm encouraging you to do at the end of every day, pull out your progress diary and record three or four or five little wins every single day. make it a practice, do it for how many days? 66 days. And then it becomes automatic, and it becomes easier to do this new habit than not to do it.