315. How to Create Habits Quickly and Easily Without Relying on Will Power with Linda Fogg-Phillips

On today’s show I talk with my good friend Linda Fogg-Phillips about effectively creating habits. Leveraging habits in your life, the correct way, can be so valuable to building the business and life that you truly want. Linda has developed a super simple system for creating habits that stick and have lasting impact while exerting almost no willpower. It all starts with small intentional decisions that act as seeds which naturally grow into life-changing habits. With this system you can maintain a positive mindset in almost any situation and become an unstoppable force in this world!

Key Takeaways

• Use the ABCs of the tiny habits system to establish an anchor moment, attach a tiny behavior to that anchor, and then celebrate every successful step.
• Rewards do not create habits. The positive emotions connected to instant celebration builds habits.
• Embrace the Maui Habit into your everyday life.
• Through specificity engineer routines that are built on habits and will grow your business into what you want it to be.

About Linda Fogg-Phillips

Linda’s work focuses on behavior change and habit design. She is the Director of Tiny Habits® Academy, which offers courses that teach individuals and professionals how to create habits quickly and easily… without relying on willpower.  As the mother of eight children, Linda has had her own behavior change and habit design laboratory for 37 years. She has a master’s degree in Health Promotion and Exercise Physiology.

Linda is the host of the soon to be launched podcast, Pearl Habits; Creating beauty and positivity from life’s challenges. 

Linda has spent over 33 years studying health behaviors, including nutrition, fitness, and mental health.  Her mission in life is to help others live a happier and healthier life by creating sustainable lifestyle behavior changes and habits that positively impact health. She has virtually coached over 15,000 people worldwide.  She is recognized by the American Council on Exercise as an expert in virtual coaching, habit formation and behavior change. She is a contributing author and expert for the ACE Behavior Change Certification Program.

Linda is an international author, public speaker, and consultant. She is the author of two books about understanding the online behavior of adolescents; Facebook for Parents and Facebook for Educators.

Linda is a featured social media and family health expert in the media and in publications such as the New York Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. During 2009 - 2013, Linda was the adolescent behavior expert and online safety consultant for Facebook, Inc. Linda was commissioned by Facebook to write their first Facebook Online Safety Guide for Educators. Linda is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University.

In 2015, Linda was crowned Ms. United States of America Woman of Achievement. In 2018 she was awarded the title Women of Achievement Legacy Queen, which is a lifetime designation.

In This Episode

• [0:00] Welcome to the show
• [4:26] Meet Linda Fogg-Phillips
• [7:59] Linda’s story
• [11:40] The ABCs of the Tiny Habit system
• [24:52] Overcoming the awkwardness of celebration
• [29:12] Myths regarding habit creation
• [34:56] Applying habits and routine to your business
• [40:07] Living with a positive mindset
• [43:58] The human behavior behind the Tiny Habits system
• [52:24] The habit every business leader should create
• [55:22] Connect with Linda
• [57:16] Outro

Quotes

“Rewards do not create habits. Rewards are great, but it's the instant attachment of a positive motion that creates a habit.” - Linda Fogg-Phillips [15:15]

“The behavior needs to be so tiny that there's no resistance to doing that behavior and there's no willpower or motivation needed.” - Linda Fogg-Phillips [21:51]

“The reality is it's our emotions that create habits and so tapping into those emotions to use them positively to create the life that we want is really key.” - Linda Fogg-Phillips [34:39]

"The number one thing that's most important about habit formation is confidence. The confidence that you have the ability to make changes in your life and you have a systematic approach that actually works.- Linda Fogg-Phillips [39:17]

Links

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