Build Amazing Habits: Simple Steps to Break Bad Habits & Make Good Ones Stick

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you struggle to make new habits stick, you are not the problem. You've just been missing the right tools and strategies to make real change happen. In this episode, you’re going to learn the simple ways to break bad habits and form new ones. Mel is revealing the 3 biggest mistakes you are likely making when trying to change your behavior and why it’s not about willpower. She is breaking down the science of habit formation so you can finally understand why your bad habits keep holding you back—and how to flip the script. This is a comprehensive toolkit that will help you apply the research to your life and take the exact steps you need to make lasting change. This episode will help you beat your next urge to doom scroll, snack, smoke, or self-sabotage. This is the breakthrough you've been waiting for! If you want more science-backed hacks for more confidence and productivity, listen to this episode next: 4 Habits for Energy, Productivity, & Happiness That Changed My Life (Science-Backed) For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page. Connect with Mel: Get Mel’s new free 26-page workbook, What Do You Really Want, to finally answer that question and redefine your future. Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast.
0:04.0	All right, today we have one of the most important topics ever. No matter what your goals are, you need habits to
0:18.6	help you achieve them. And you're lucky because you've got a friend named Mel who happens to be one of the leading experts in the world on behavior change and the strategies that you can use to break bad habits and replace them with new habits.
0:33.7	And so I want to tell you something right now.
0:36.2	If you've had a hard time changing your habits or trying to achieve your goals,
0:41.8	I want you to hear something loud and clear before we jump into the foundational
0:45.2	science, okay? You're not the problem. I'm going to say that again. If you've had a hard time achieving
0:50.7	your goals or changing behavior or changing the way you think.
0:54.1	You are not the problem.
0:58.8	You want to change.
1:00.5	Me too.
1:01.7	You're frustrated that you can't break those old habits. Me too.
1:06.0	Here's the problem. You haven't had the simple science supported strategies and systems that help you create new habits and
1:17.9	make them sick.
1:19.1	That's it.
1:20.1	You know when it comes to the science of habits this is one of those topics that when you
1:27.0	have somebody break it down for you
1:31.0	you have this epiphany where you're like, are you kidding me?
1:34.0	This is all I needed to know?
1:36.0	Why did I make this so hard on myself?
1:39.0	That's how I felt when I learned everything that you're about to learn today because my goal
1:46.3	today is very very simple. I am going to break down the complex and
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