Ep. 17 - Making Mindset Work a Habit

When you do the work to manage your mind, you learn to become the observer of your thoughts. Half the battle is remembering you are not your thoughts, your thoughts are your perception and not necessarily fact, you don't have to believe your thoughts, and you can choose whether to keep them or to think something more useful. The other part is remembering that your thoughts are responsible for the results you create or don't create in your life.

When we understand this concept, we can change the direction of our lives. It just requires commitment and intentionality to take full responsibility and ownership for our thoughts, feelings, actions, and results.

But because we're human, and because our brains can process up to 70,000 thoughts per day, it's easy to forget we have these amazing tools, particularly when we're in the middle of mind drama.

In this episode, I offer a way to use habit building principles to keep mindset practices at the forefront of our thinking when we need them most. Borrowing heavily from James Clear's four-step model to building good habits, I share how we can use his Cue, Craving, Response, and Reward framework to automate the practice of mindset work so we can minimize the time we lose to mind drama that could be spent creating the results we want most in life.

Cited in Podcast:

Article:
Take a Deep Breath. Published by Harvard Medical School (Mental Health Letter), 2009.

Books:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Deep Work by Cal Newport
How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Indistractable by Nir Eyal

Podcast:
The Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo

Website:
Tyson Bradley, Time Coach - https://tysonbradley.me/

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Original intro/outro music by JMW.

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