All right, guys, welcome to this episode of Technically Short.
And in this episode, I'm talking about habits, talking about good habits, talking about bad
habits, and really talking about how good habits when they are intentionally sought
after, how they contribute to your calling and a more fulfilled life.
So get your pen out, get your pencil, get your whatever you write with in your paper
and let's dive in.
All right.
All right, guys, let's dive into it.
So in this episode, we're talking about reprogramming your mind with habits.
We're talking about why habits are important and how they contribute to a whenever you
really hone in on your habits, how they contribute to a better life overall.
So first, if you haven't already, give this podcast a like review, a follow on whether
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So you know, last episode, we talked about how patience is only a virtue, but it's a
necessity.
It was actually our last point.
If you missed it, you can go back and go back to that.
Now we're reading that we're going on and we're talking about another necessity.
Good habits.
Now these are necessities are only a necessity if you really want to pursue your calling.
So if you don't really want to pursue your calling, then maybe you don't necessarily
need good habits.
But I mean, I feel like the people are listening to this episode are people that want to pursue
their calling.
So let's keep going.
So reprogramming your mind, what does it mean?
It means to learn new beneficial habits and unlearning bad ones.
That last part is pretty important, but we're mainly going to stick to good habits because
I think the flip side of bad habits is kind of self-explanatory.
Maybe we dive into a little bit, but we'll see.
So talking about like, I want to like give you a little bit of insight of like why I'm
bringing this up at all.
Why are habits important to talk about and why are they important to me?
And so like for a while I've talked to, I've said to people like I'm a creature of habit,
I'm a creature of routine and really is what I would say, like I love my, I'm routine based.
And the one thing I really was like not really thinking about too much was how everybody
really is the same way in that respect.
Like everybody is habitual person.
Everybody is a creature of habit.
And it's so like this, me talking about this isn't just something that I'm talking about
to benefit myself.
It's something that I let myself dive.
I was able to dive into a little bit deeper so that I could make this episode.
But also I know it will benefit everyone that's listening because we're all habitual people.
So habits are literally what we like.
They're our lives.
So let's keep going.
Before my current trial that I'm going through, my trial of pain, I was already kind of working
on a foundation, which I didn't know was my foundation, but I was working on a foundation
of habits.
I was eating, I was working on eating healthy and working out, talking with friends, meeting
up with people as often as I could.
I didn't know that these habits were going to be my baseline, even though I felt like
it was like really what I was meant to be.
I was on a good path.
I think they were just the baseline.
But now when I'm in this current trial and I can't do all the things I could before,
I'm so happy that I started when I did because now it makes it so much easier to prioritize
my day to day because I don't have the same capacity that everybody does.
I have the same time, the same 24 hours, but I don't have the same physical capacity.
So the things I really want to do, the easiest way to make sure that they get done is by
intentionally instantiating these habits.
So I'm going to dive into some personal habits, some good habits I've instantiated, some good
habits that I think help others as well.
And then I'm going to talk about why good habits are important at all.
And I feel like people are like going to think it's obvious that they're important, but not
I don't think a lot of people have usually dive into why they're important.
And I kind of so I want to kind of go and I deep dive with you.
Then I have a little excerpt from my Maxwell leadership Bible that I have where he was
talking from Achilles, Ecclesiastes to I practice saying that before this recording and it worked
out pretty well.
And we're going to dive into something from that.
And then very, very briefly talk about the four laws of behavior change I learned about
in the book, Atomic Habits.
I say very briefly because I want to actually eventually do a full episode on that book.
So let's dive into good habits.
And the habit is beneficial to your calling.
So some of the things I started before were things to do like whenever I want to clean
the fish tank, I would leave the door open to the stand of the fish tank so that every
time I entered the room where the fish tank was, I would be reminded on that that day
I needed to clean the fish tank.
So it's like those small little reminders.
Like that was a habit I instantiated habit I created just so I would remember to do this
and do something that needed to get done.
And the same thing can apply to a book that I want to read, leaving it in the same spot
and reading in the same spot every day.
So that, and that's still something I'm working on, just to be honest with you guys, I'm not
perfect at it and it's something I really want to get back into.
So that's something reading a book for growing wisdom and growing knowledge is really what
I'm talking about.
So why are good habits important?
So in my life and hopefully in your life too, if you haven't instantiated the habits, good
habits as well, in my life, they've contributed to healthier living, learning my limits, increasing
my productivity, building a stronger relationship with God, and honestly just making me a happy,
making me happier and less stressed and it allows me to have a higher expectation on
my life or expectation on myself, I should say.
So with like healthier living and it's like vacuuming the same time every day, which helps
me same time every week, which helps me live in a healthier environment.
Working out the same time every day helps me manage my physical health.
Eating healthy whole foods and cooking most of my meals helps me to make sure my body
is fueled with the right things.
Like things like learning my limits, like you know, I talked about in the last episode,
my physical limits mean I can only work on a certain tasks for so long each day, which
helps me prioritize my tasks and my habits.
And without really knowing that, like I would know without habit, without really knowing
about my habits, I would know that I have physical limits, but I wouldn't be thinking
about how I can be prioritizing my time in my capacity in a way that really, really utilizes
it to the highest benefit that I can get out of it.
And then increase, and I want to actually stop real quick, that learning like your own
limits is important too.
And like my physical limits, you may have your physical limits too, not just like through
strength, but maybe you're like me, you have a physical health condition.
Like that's the important thing to think about, but also if you just have general limits,
like we talked about in the last episode, like it limits in your understanding, limits
in the time that everybody has.
Like everybody has a limit of time.
So like how can you instantiate habits to work within those constraints that we have?
So then the next one was increasing my productivity, which I kind of touched on before in learning
your limits.
Like when you know where your time is going, it's a lot easier to tell where, sorry, this
is something from a note.
So when you know where your time is going, it's a lot easier to tell it where else to
go and where to tell it where not to go.
You want to stop watching TV for so long and start working on your side gig more?
Well then you can, like, this is a very high level, it's not as easy as just doing this,
but like you can, you know, you just remove the time that you're spending on watching
TV and spend it on working on your side gig.
Or spend it working out or spend it reading the book you want to read.
And you just figure out what your priorities are when it comes to your calling.
What are the things that are going to benefit you pursuing your calling the most?
And if you don't know, whenever I talk about calling, I'm really telling you about that
divine purpose that is on your life.
Like what is your, like, whenever you're really thinking about the things that you want to
be doing, like really ask yourself, why am I doing this thing?
Why?
That's a question I should have later on in this, in my notes, but it's like really asking
yourself why am I doing the things that I'm doing?
Why am I prioritizing the things I'm prioritizing?
Whether the things I'm prioritizing aren't beneficial to me at all, or as beneficial
as some other things could be that I could be prioritizing higher.
And then the next thing I've really learned through habits is building a stronger relationship
with my God.
Getting into the word the same time every morning, it grows my understanding.
It helps me line myself up for the have a great day.
I really understand, like whenever I started reading, I've been reading it for like the
same time every day for the last year, at least the last year, last two years.
And I'm working through a full read of the Bible right now.
And I am fully confident I'm going to get there because I know I'm going to read the
Bible every day, even if it's just one chapter a day sometimes, on a day sometimes, because
I know I want to get to work and start my work for my job the same time every day.
So I can do that job, my job with excellence.
I know that I'm going to finish.
I know I can be expectant.
I'm going to finish the Bible and read it from cover to cover because I sit down the
same time every day and I read it and I just do it and I learn and I grow and I love it.
And that's another thing about habits.
I don't even have it in my notes, but it's a pretty obvious thing to bring up is that
habits like it's something that you do consistently and almost like it gets to the point where
if you don't do this thing, it feels wrong.
And that's why like breaking a bad habit is so hard.
It's because whenever you're not doing that thing, it feels so wrong not to do it.
Even if it's watching TV.
Believe me, I know I used to watch like five hours at TV every day, which is, you know,
no, you're probably just like some people might just scoffed.
They, but like all that time though, I took that most of that time and put it towards
things that are now benefiting me because I understand, I realized that like what I was
doing wasn't helping me.
And like I had a guy whenever I was really first diving into my business, really whenever
I was doing like freelance design, freelance web development, I had this guy, what is his
name?
Man, one second.
His name is Ryan.
I keep trying to remember his last name, but Cole, Ryan Cole, he told me he's like flat
out, like, Hey, just stop watching TV.
Stop watching Netflix.
No more Netflix.
I couldn't do it at the time.
But then eventually it took me a while for that.
Like that thought kept drilling into my mind.
And eventually I was like, yeah, you know what?
I deleted my Netflix account and like that time then was removed.
I or that habit was removed forcibly from my life.
Then I had to put that time towards something else because I no longer had Netflix as an
option.
So that's another thing in habits altogether.
Like how you break bad habits, you make them harder to do.
So I know I'm kind of jumping around, but that's just really something that we really
think about.
And then so like, I don't know what, like, I want to say, like, whenever you get good
habits into your life, you honestly just make yourself happier and less stressed because
when you have your habits honed in, you know where your time is going, you know, and you're
telling it where to go and where not to go.
Like, you know, when, what things are going to get done and when they're going to get
done.
Like, you know, that every, I know every day I'm going to sit down and read my Bible.
I read my Bible.
I know I'm going to get, I'm going to get to the point where I'm going to sit down every
day and know at what time I'm going to sit down and read the book I'm reading for reading
for growth.
And like, that's a really good feeling.
If you haven't experienced that yet, I'm just going to say you should give it a try.
You should give it, you should give it a little try.
And like, it also allows, allows me whenever I have these, like my, I'm honed in on these
goals, honed in on these habits.
Like it allows me to have higher expectations on myself.
Like when I know my limits, I have increased my productivity.
I'm happier and less stressed.
I can start to do more things that stretch me and contribute to my calling.
Like, isn't that like, that's a really awesome feeling because we talked about in the last
episode that you know your limits.
So you can give some things off to other people.
You can then create habits to, you know, to check in with these people, to make sure that
they're on task.
But then while they're working on what they're working on, they have the habits that they
have instantiated, then your habits now can be a contribute, now can be attributed to
a different part of your calling.
So like it's, there's a, it's a whole, this whole system is meant to work in a very, I
believe these systems are meant to work in a very particular way.
Instantiate good habits, good things happen.
So one of the things like with this podcast, there's like this whole, like having a podcast
in itself is something that you have to have habits around.
Like when do you, when I reach out to people, when I reach out to guests or people that
could be guests, usually I reach out to people after, after work.
Sometimes the habit is when I, how many times there is a habit of like, Oh, I just remembered
that I want to reach out to this person.
So I'm just going to do it right now.
Like that's a habit in itself.
Like I had the thought, I'm not going to write down.
I'm just going to do it.
That's a habit in itself.
It takes two seconds in that respect.
When I, when I prep for episodes, when do I, when am I taking my notes?
When am I doing research and looking in, looking into stuff I've learned in the past, like
that, that's something that can be prioritized and prioritized and scheduled into my, into
a day.
Then when, when do I make Instagram reels?
Like that's something that I'm not great at, but it's a habit that can be instantiated
and shameless plug.
Like I did in the last episode, if you know somebody, you are that somebody, I really
would love to have somebody managing my social media.
That would be fantastic.
And then when I record the intro segment for the episode, like the great part of that habit
is that I do it right after the episode is over, right after I'm done recording the episode,
like right after I'm done recording this, I'm going to record the intro for this episode.
And then I, and then it's done.
And then like I do it right afterwards.
So then I know, I know when that's going to happen.
Those are just some personal examples.
I know I'm talking about myself a lot, but I feel like I feel like a really good way
to share that, like you at least know a little bit about what you're talking about is to
share that you actually utilize like these things.
So if you, if, if, yeah, yeah, I just think that, but, um, and I didn't mention before,
so I'm going to actually mention, um, one thing from that, what I said about the leadership
Bible, I wanted to go down there for a second and, uh, in Ecclesiastes two, well, it wasn't
actually in Ecclesiastes two.
It's more the concepts that were in it and how, and John Maxwell was talking about how
the author was, or I guess in this case it was, uh, King Solomon, I believe.
And he was focusing on too many pursuits.
That's what was being written about.
And so it was trying to go after everything that caught his eye, anything that was pleasurable.
He was trying, he was like trying to pursue that thing because to try and figure out what
this hap, what happiness was, what made, what made things happen, what made him feel content.
And when making one thing I have written here is when making a decision on whether to do
something or when questioning why you're already doing something, you can ask yourself like
these couple of questions.
You're like, is this consistent with my priorities and do I actually have the time to do it?
So what did that have to do with the make, like with like multiple pursuits?
Uh, it's really asking you, it's really asking you like, is, are these things that I'm pursuing,
are they, uh, consistent with the priorities or in this case that we're talking about?
Like in this context of the calling, are they consistent with my calling?
And again, do I have the actual time to do it?
I think that's important.
You can't, uh, you can't do more than what you're capable of doing.
And this whole, I know this, um, episode is called reprogramming your mind and the, what
I was talking about before about good habits, really that is about programming it.
Your reprogramming part comes in is whenever you're also removing the bad habits from your
life.
And so while I was breathing, I talked about good habits is, it's honestly because be able
to be able to get those good habits in, you do have to start removing the bad habits too.
And a lot of it is kind of the flip side and how you start habits.
This is going to be a little bit of a shorter episode, but, but I really wanted to just
say real quick about the, like I talked, mentioned about how I wanted to say something about atomic
habits.
So there are a couple of, like in the, in the topic habits, uh, James clear talks about
the four laws of behavior change.
And those are real quick.
It's that he says, make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying.
And I talked about kind of like inadvertently talked about those already previously, but
the flip side of like these laws is to like, or it's like, whenever you want to apply them
to bad habits or apply them to removing bad habits, you can say, make it obscure, make
it unattractive, make it hard and make it dissatisfying.
And the one I really want to get at is actually make it hard.
Like if you want to, like if you want to start doing something, you make it easy.
It leaves a book where you want to leave it.
You want, you leave the book where you want to read it and you read this, read in the
same place every single day so that you know every day where you're going to read your
programming your mind to read in that spot every day.
And that when you sit in that chair, when you, when you're in that area, you're, you
essentially can shift it to a mode that is ready to read for instance, but to make it
hard.
If you're like, if you want to, like, this is a, uh, example of maybe you want to stop
drinking, you make it hard.
You get rid of, you start by getting rid of the alcohol in the house.
You can't drink if there's, you can't drink alcohol, if there's no alcohol to drink.
And or by why, like I did with Netflix, I didn't, I wanted to stop watching as much
TV.
So I just made it really hard to do that by removing the, by removing that as a possibility.
So it's really identifying what the bad habits are and, and like this main, this law really
says then remove the source.
And that allows you then to fill that time in, fill that effort and that capacity in
with something that will better utilize that time.
So I do eventually want to dive into all of these deeper, but that again, I want to do
a full episode on each one of these.
So guys, I know this has been a bit of a shorter episode, but, uh, this is also the third take.
So I, uh, it was, it was a, it was a bit of a struggle to make sure that I, for me to
make sure I was providing good content for you guys.
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So guys, thank you for listening.
And I guess, yeah, I'll see you next time.
See ya.