15. The Habit of Implementation: make a positive change that sticks

Most of us feel the need to improve our lives. We buy books and attend meetings and trainings, hoping it will help us solve our problems. Every new idea, gadget, or app brings hope that it will be different this time. But it rarely is. So we go and hunt for more. We behave like hamsters. We stuff our cheeks with as much stuff as possible, and then we go on the running wheel, expecting to make progress. But at the end of the day, we are still in the same place - more sweaty and out of breath.

Of course, this gloomy loop is not the inevitable fate of man. We can change that relatively quickly by focusing less on gathering stuff and more on using it with purpose. Let’s talk about the habit of… implementation.

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0:00 Introduction
1:32 Why This Habit is so Essential?
2:47 Capturing the Idea
7:34 Selecting most useful pieces
9:38 Implementation Intentions
11:41 Time to think
13:29 Time to act
15:11 Evaluate
16:30 Final Words