Read the self-help books, listen to music that pumps you up, hang out with people who think you're a rock star, meditate, stay in good physical shape. Your mindset muscle needs to be worked out every day or you get flabby. Sincero: To go to the spiritual gym every damn day. Q: What tips do you have to keep people motivated on their journeys? really pushing it in coming up with specific things that you can do instead of just sort of vaguely hoping it's gonna get better.

Sincero: Taking 5-10 minutes to sit down and be like, 'OK, how could I make it so much easier for me to stick to this diet?' And really pushing yourself beyond only buying healthy foods and whatever the obvious things are – getting on a good diet program, joining Weight Watchers – but sitting there and pushing yourself to just put more effort into making it easy. Q: How can people set themselves up for success? Upcoming Pope Francis book 'Let Us Dream' backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skepticsġ00 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston Identifying as somebody, it cuts out the negotiation process. If you're a nonsmoker, you don't really think about smoking. If you're trying to quit but you're still a smoker you're still thinking about, 'Well maybe I'll just have one puff.'. It's very different than if you identify as somebody who doesn't smoke. You do all this stuff, but you're still identifying as a smoker who's quitting. Sincero: If you identify, for example, as a smoker and then you decide you're going to quit smoking, you do all of the things, right? You stop hanging out with people who smoke, you get rid of cigarettes. Q: How does identity come into play when forming these habits and adopting new behaviors? You've got to really identify and bust yourself on how you're thinking, how you're speaking, who you believe you are, what you believe is possible for yourself and start there, and it'll make the actions much easier to stick to. I talk a lot in my book about (how) habits are more about who you're being than what you're doing.

Jen Sincero : I think it's that we just look at the surface, instead of going deeper. Question: Why is it hard for people to change their habits? Why do we fail?

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