The Helpful Habits

The Helpful Habits

Hi! My name is Andrzej Bernardyn and welcome to The Helpful Habits. I am a business trainer, expert in developing habits, and the author of a board game The Land of Habits. In this podcast I will show you how good routines can transform any aspect of your life - your health, finances, relationships, work, and business. To achieve this you don’t need to meditate in the Himalayas for a couple of years or become a cult member. Instead of massive leaps, we will use small steps. Seemingly insignificant shifts that in time lead to spectacular results. Like a tiny snowball that can cause an avalanche… but of positive changes. In The Helpful Habits I will talk about matters that are both important and practical in a listener-friendly way. Instead of scientific gibberish or philosophical jargon I will use a simple, easy-to-understand language with a lot of stories from my life, analogies, and metaphors. In each episode I will present at least 1 helpful habit. You will learn why it is essential and how this habit can improve the quality of your life. What’s more, you will learn how to step-by-step make it a part of you that is your second, better nature. From time to time I will invite special guests and trick them to confess which habits greatly contributed to their success. Because of that you will use their experience and avoid painful mistakes. You can listen to The Helpful Habits on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the good podcasting apps. May the power of good habits be with you and till next time.

Episodes

April 3, 2023 40 mins
Being a parent is one of the most significant and challenging roles in our lives. In schools, we learn to calculate the area of a triangle or what is the longest river in the world. But unless you go to pedagogical or psychological studies, you won’t get any science-based information about how to raise a child. You can find infinite advice on the Internet, but most will do more harm than good.

That is why I invited a special guest—a...
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When we add ‘I’ to ‘llness,’ we get illness. But when instead we add ‘we,’ the result is far superior - we get wellness. This simple play on words can help us reveal the greater truth. Many mental disorders, like depression or anxiety, are characterized by self-focused preoccupation. Focusing our attention away from ourselves and onto others may help us not only to feel better but, at the same time, build stronger relationships wit...
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Hope can make each of our days a little brighter. When we expect positive results in our lives we are more likely to get them. How to embrace a more optimistic view on life? Can anybody become an optimist? Where can we draw the line between healthy optimism and naivety? What does wine have to do with optimism? Should the manager or a leader be an optimist? Or should he prepare their team for the worst possible scenario?

In this epis...
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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...
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What does it mean to be productive? Is it about crossing out from your TO-DO list as many tasks as possible every day? Handling multiple projects or tasks at once? Or thinking more about the quality than quantity of your work? Working on things that matter and have a long-lasting impact?

In this episode, we will answer all of these questions and even more. Let’s talk about the habit of … productivity.

And for the first time in this ...
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We often are so focused on achieving goals and results that we forget about ourselves. We treat our bodies like a machine and our minds like a piece of software. We exploit them ruthlessly until they ultimately crush. Hospitalization, depression, and burnout can be a consequence of this predatory strategy.

That is why I want to convince you to treat yourself more gently. Your body is much more than a means of transport to your head...
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The more, the merrier. You cannot have too much of a good thing. Plenty is no plague. In English, we have numerous proverbs telling us that having a lot of something is much better than having only a little. But nowadays, we often face the opposite problem. We have too much. Too much stuff in our apartments, too many tasks on our agendas, and too much thought in our minds. Plenty of options to choose from can indeed be a plague, ca...
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Please imagine that you are about to send a fragile piece of art - a porcelain figurine or a painting worth millions of dollars. Would you just put it into a bubble envelope, hoping the delivery company will safely hand over it to the addressee? Probably not. You would take every possible precaution to make the package stronger and more resistant to damage.

Can we, in a similar way, prepare ourselves and our fragile psyche to potent...
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There are so many things that can bring our mood down: bad news about our work, a fight with a person we love, or discovering that your dream won’t come true.

Is there a way to do just the opposite? To lift our spirit in an instance? To feel good about our lives, the current situation or to give ourselves the motivation we need to perform a particularly tough task? If so, how can we use the concept of Power Ups from the games to ac...
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How much money did you spend this month on food? How much time did you spend on crucial projects or with your family members? How many fruits and veggies did you eat this week? Most of us are clueless about all of these subjects.

We have so many things on our plates and minds that we don’t pay much attention to them, and as soon as they are done, we forget what exactly we did. But it doesn’t have to be like that. We can collect imp...
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Food. We all love it and sometimes hate it at the same time. Food gives us pleasure, pretext to bond with people we care about and all the nutrients we need to have energy and be healthy. On the other hand, in a busy world it is unbelievably hard not to eat too much or the wrong stuff.

What can we do to improve our health in a tasty way? How can we find time to prepare healthy meals? What kind of question can help us to avoid eating...
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“I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.” With these words Roman poet Ovid 2 000 years ago named a struggle that we still all feel in the 21. century. We know what is best for our health, but sometimes a chocolate bar or a bag of chips is just irresistible. We are convinced that exercising is essential, but after a hard day at work or at home with children it is so much easier to lay on the couch and watch TV sho...
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How can you start each day full of energy and positive thoughts? How can you know from the beginning what is your most important goal today and on which tasks you should focus your attention? How to set the tone for the rest of the day with quick wins that bring you satisfaction?

In this episode I will try to answer all of these questions and even more.
Let’s talk about the Morning Habits!

For more information and the full transcr...
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There are only a few things that nearly all of us have in common: death, taxes and … shopping! We all spend money but not necessarily on items that we really need or for the best price available. How to decide what is absolutely worth our money and, in essence, a part of our life that we needed to sacrifice to get this money? How to distinguish things that we want from things that we need? How to get the best value for money?

In thi...
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What can we do to remember better the key insights that popped in our mind during the day? How can we save precious moments of victory, joy or gratitude? How to properly evaluate the passing day or plan for tomorrow?

In this episode I will try to answer all of these questions and even more.
Let’s talk about the habit of journaling!

For more information and full transcript of this episode visit https://landofhabits.com/podcast/
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How can you show how much you love your significant other? Which ways of expressing your affection will be highly appreciated by your partner and which will be ignored or even misunderstood? What can you do to strengthen relationships with the most important people in your life?

In this episode I will try to answer all of these questions and even more.
Let’s talk about the habit of expressing love!
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Most of us, as human beings, seek pleasure and comfort. We tend to take the line of least resistance and do what is easy and convenient. We fear pain (for example connected with the dentist appointment) and we will go to extremes to avoid it, if possible.

In this episode I will try to convince you that discomfort not only isn’t as bad as we portray it, but getting used to it can help you solve many of your biggest problems.

Let’s t...
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Hi! My name is Andrzej and welcome to The Helpful Habits. In this podcast, we will learn how to employ good habits that will do the hard work for us. How to change our lives for the better not by taking massive leaps, but with the help of small, easy-to-implement steps.

In this episode, you will learn what is a habit, what is the proven formula to develop a great habit in your life, and what I consider to be the greatest habit of al...
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Hi! My name is Andrzej Bernardyn and welcome to The Helpful Habits. I am a business trainer, expert in developing habits, and the author of a board game The Land of Habits.

In this podcast I will show you how good routines can transform any aspect of your life - your health, finances, relationships, work, and business.

To achieve this you don’t need to meditate in the Himalayas for a couple of years or become a cult member. Instea...
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