The Art of Convenience: Transforming Habits and Boosting Productivity

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Discover how the art of convenience can be your secret weapon in building better habits and achieving your personal goals. Inspired by my journey in the franchise beauty industry, I reveal how simply choosing a gym nearby or removing temptations like junk food from your home can transform your routine. It's about making beneficial actions effortlessly accessible to boost motivation and maintain consistency. Join me on this insightful trail as we explore how minor tweaks in our environment can lead to substantial lifestyle improvements.

On the other hand, we dive into the power of strategically introducing inconvenience to deter unwanted behaviors. From leveraging apps like OneSec to rethink screen time to redesigning spaces that discourage unhealthy choices, I share actionable advice for those seeking to balance convenience and inconvenience. This episode provides a fresh perspective on aligning your actions with your aspirations, offering a toolkit for anyone aiming to enhance productivity and well-being through smarter habit formation.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thank you.
Large franchise system and mostrecently I co-founded, grew and
sold a franchise beauty brand.
My hope is that you learn bylistening in to these
conversations and considerations.
Enjoy the show.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here's something to consider, and this is the idea
of convenience.
I'm on a trail right near myhome, which makes it very
convenient for me to go hike it,even when, sometimes, when I
was selling gym memberships, Iwould tell people, particularly
people at the beginning of theirfitness journey, we're just

(00:54):
getting back on, it is, go tothe thing that's most convenient
.
The Taj Mahal gym or facilitythat's way out of your way, not
in your daily commute, is notgoing to serve the purpose that
you want it to.
It's got to be convenient inorder to add it to be part of
your life and, conversely,there's inconvenience.

(01:18):
Want to do something less, makeit really inconvenient to do.
This could be as simple astaking junk food out of your
pantry.
So when you get those cravings,the bag of chips isn't waiting
for you, and I think we could doa lot of this pretty easily

(01:41):
just by thinking of convenientor inconvenient there's.
Do it.
You're doing something that youdon't want to be doing.
I'll make it more inconvenient.
I have a uh, an app on my phonecalled once, one sec one second
, Maybe it's one sec, I don'tknow.
Um, but I have it for apps thatI don't want to spend a lot of

(02:05):
time on frivolously, likeYouTube.
I don't want to scroll YouTubeall the time, so the OneSec app
makes me take a couple deepbreaths before I go into an app.
It makes me rethink do I reallywant to be on that app right
now?
Makes it less convenient.
So something to considerconvenience versus inconvenience

(02:29):
.
Obviously, the things that aregoing to help you win make them
more convenient somehow, and thethings that are going to take
you away from your goals makethem less convenient.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, that wraps up today's episode.
I hope it helped you in someway, even if it was just to
provide another perspective.
Please share it with othersthat may benefit as well.