4 Keys to Changing Your Behavior & Habits

CREATING CHANGE: QUICK THOUGHTS FROM JIM

• An average person has about 60-70k thoughts a day, but the problem is 90-95% of those thoughts are the same thoughts you had yesterday and the day before that.
• If you want something brand new you have to stop doing something old: one must do something new in order to see something new.
• If you want a new result in your life, you have to do a new behavior.
• If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done, but most people can’t get out of their own way.
• Stop saying I wish this would change, I hope this will change. Hope is not a strategy: take I wish and turn it into I will.
• To create change, try something brand new every single day.
• We’re given this one precious life to figure it out, and life can be extremely boring if we stay within what we already know.
• If you’re inspired to try something new, try it using the three C’s below.

TRY IT THREE TIMES

• We all have something we want to learn—whether it’s salsa, juggling, or even taking a cold shower.
• Remember: first you create your habits, then your habits create you.
• Try it once to get over the fear of it.
• Try it a second time to begin to learn it.
• Try it a third time to work out if you love it or not.
• The goal is to understand the process of doing the activity.

CREATING CHANGE

Think about a change you want to make in your life, and consider the following 3 keys to creating lasting change:

FIRST C: CONSISTENCY

• Whether it takes 21, 30, 66 days or longer: the power comes from repetition.
• If you’re persistent you get to obtain it, if you’re consistent you get to keep it.
• Episode mentioned: Understanding Habit Triggers with James Clear.
• Episode mentioned: Breaking Bad Habits That Hold You Back with BJ Fogg.

SECOND C: CAPABILITY

• The actual skill and strategy of being able to do something.
• Capability usually comes from the Third C, Challenge: as you challenge yourself you develop your skills and strengths.

THIRD C: CHALLENGE

• Which challenge comes change: you get better and more capable at something the more you challenge yourself.
• When you do the hard things, life gets easier—because you’re getting better, you’re challenging yourself.
• When you just do the easy things in life (like procrastinating), life gets hard.
• Life will give you challenges, but once you get to the other side of the challenge, you will be stronger for it.
• Through challenges, you develop fortitude, capability, grit, and strength.

FOURTH C: COACH

• I’m honored to be your brain coach. I’m here to help you become consistent, build your capability and challenge you to become better.
• We’re creating a Kwik Challenge for people who want to level up their brains—there is no fee to join.
• Now is the time to make a change—I will be giving you ten new challenges.
• This challenge is for people who want to take knowledge and turn it into power, join a community of people who are ready to make changes in their lives.
• Big changes come from making little changes: consistency compounds.
• Go to kwikchallenge.com and join us!
• Every week I’m going to be giving you a new challenge.
• I’m going to give you 100%, and I’m going to ask that you give yourself 100% too and do the work.

JOIN THE CHALLENGE!

• Check out kwikchallenge.com.
• As part of your accountability, you’ll be taking a screenshot during each challenge and posting it on social media so we can see the proof of your efforts.
• Use the hashtag #kwikchallenge.
• Change doesn’t have to be difficult—it’s little things that add up to big things.
• Get a challenge buddy if you can! We’re more likely to follow through if we’re accountable to somebody else.
• At the end of the challenge, you’ll be a master of change and know how to introduce changes and learn skills in future.
• Change your brain and change your life, change your life and you can change the world.

TODAY’S CHALLENGE

#kwikchallengeTake a screenshot of this episode, tag us, use the hashtag #kwikchallenge and let me know “I’m in!” for the challenge on social media!

Together we can create a movement of people working to create change.Tag us on social media: @jimkwik | @kwikbrain