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Episode 49: Slow Progress, Navigating Foolish Laws, Breaking Bad Habits And More (Podcast)

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast we explored reasons why people love to start new ventures rather than see any of them through, if there is such a thing as a healthy obsession, how to navigate outdated or foolish laws, how to break bad habits, and how to deal with the realization that you’re progressing in your life, career, relationship, work, etc,. but slowly.

Episode 49: Slow Progress, Navigating Foolish Laws, Breaking Bad Habits And More

Starting Fascination – Why are people so fascinated with starting and less on seeing something through?

Obsession – Is there such a thing as a healthy obsession?

Laws – How do you navigate outdated or foolish laws?

Habits – Best way to break a bad habit?

Bonus –  What is one tip you have for people who feel that their progress is slow?

 

Stay Positive & Subscribe Me Up, Scotty

Something You’ve Never Done Before

Garth Beyer

It felt nice being told I would be doing something I’ve never done before. Being told made it easier for me. Someone else made the choice. Someone else picked me.

There are two interesting epiphanies I had from being told.

First, I had to do things I’ve never done before to get asked to do things I’ve never done before. I’ve made a habit out of conquering the unknown and she knew I would be able to handle it. In reality, she didn’t pick me at random. I gave her a reason to.

Second, if we merely wait for someone to pick us, someone to force us into a new space, someone to tell us we’ll be doing something we’ve never done before, we’ll be waiting a very long time.

Opportunities to charter new territory and dare greatly are nearly always self-proposed.

 

Stay Positive & Do Something That Scares You Everyday, Build That Momentum

Habit Is A Daily Thing

Garth Beyer

Habit is what you do today, not what you did yesterday or what you will do tomorrow. If you disagree, let me ask you this:

The first day that you begin something that you want to consistently do each day, is that not considered a habit?

If not, then when is what you do finally a habit? I love habits because you can only measure them by the day. I love habits because you can only break them by the day. I say this, not to persuade you to agree, but to encourage to keep at your goals each day.

It’s much like the idea of being one bite away from getting back on your diet. Don’t let the lack of doing something yesterday stop you from doing it today. Just the same, don’t let the inability to do something over the weekend stop you from doing it today.

When it comes to habit, numbers mean nothing. All that matters is today and if you do what you set out to do.

 

Stay Positive & Deal With Tomorrow,  Tomorrow

Garth E. Beyer

Habitude

Garth Beyer

When you feel behind, you need to change not what you do, but the attitude you carry with one action. Before you know it, your attitude will be consistent with other actions.

Your consistent attitude with one action always becomes present in all other habits.

It’s just the way it is.

 

Stay Positive & Use It To Your Advantage

Garth E. Beyer

The Choice

Garth Beyer

We all have this same choice: to be who we say we are… or not.

Of course, the first problem is getting people to say they are something: a writer, a photojournalist, a skater, an artist.

But once it’s out in the open, it has to be consistent for it to matter, for it to make a real impact. Consistency is what separates the pianist who plays just to get by and the pianist who can get by while only playing 15 times a year. There’s a significant difference.

For those who “make it,” all it is they are really making is the same decision every day to be who they say they are. No special talents. No pills. No pep talk. Just  a conscious decision made consistently.

 

Stay Positive & It’s Always A Choice, Never A Habit

Garth E. Beyer

Now

Garth Beyer

is always the best time to start.

There’s a wonderful reminder that I’ve worked up to counter the most common reason to not start now: you’re already behind.

I call it the One Bite Away reminder.

Imagine you start a diet (maybe you are currently on one) and things are going great. You’ve lost a few pounds, built some muscle, and even feel better. But then you begin snacking over the weekend.

Now you’re behind.

And since you’re behind, you might as well toss the diet plan. You messed up. You failed. Forget it. Maybe next year. Maybe in the summer. Maybe when you get enough motivation to ask someone to do it with you. Maybe when you build up to it again. Maybe when you get your feelings hurt.

Why we don’t realize that being slightly behind is a lot better than continuously getting further behind, I don’t know.

What I do know is that when you are behind, you’re only One Bite Away from getting back on the diet, back in the groove, back in the zone.

Seems pretty simple when you put it that way doesn’t it? One bite – not one hundred bites, not a week behind, not five pounds. One bite.

That’s how it is with any “diet.”

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Beat Yourself Up. You’re Just One Bite Away

Garth E. Beyer