Quick Cut: S2E227 The Nudge You Need

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

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When you feel like you’re not making any progress in life, a little nudge can be just the thing to help propel you forward. In this episode, Brian explains why it’s so easy to get stuck in your comfort zone and what you can do to get moving and reach your goals. Topics discussed include: Why spending time with likeminded people is so important and why ongoing coaching and training are the keys to success.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Why it can be difficult to push yourself.

· Why you must always measure progress.

· Why you should never go it alone.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Roger Bannister

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“A change imposed is always a change opposed.” – Brian Buffini

“When it gets to the nudge you need, focus on the numbers, not the stories.” – Brian Buffini

“If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.” – Lord Kelvin

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Take someone in the carpool lane of success with you.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	Top of the morning to you.
0:18.0	Welcome to the program.
0:19.0	Today I got a short and sweet little episode for you that I think could be very helpful.
0:25.0	It's called the nudge you need.
0:27.0	We all need a little nudge sometimes.
0:29.0	This is something that helps us propel forward, helps us move forward, but it's done so in such a way that it doesn't cause a shock to the system and where we react or resist.
0:41.0	A change imposed is always changed opposed. But a little
0:46.5	nudge here and there, well that can help. And I've got three things for you as I
0:50.2	always do. The first thing I want to talk about that it's hard to push yourself.
0:54.0	I'm going to talk about the truth of why the necessary nudge is important.
0:58.0	And then lastly, we'll talk about the nudge you need.
1:01.0	So let's dive into it. You know it is hard to push yourself. A great
1:05.9	example of this is Roger Banister and the Four Minute Mile. He died just a few years
1:11.4	ago, Sir Roger Banister, and he's the man who broke the four minute mile.
1:15.4	Now at the time the four minute mile was considered impossible.
1:20.3	It actually, medical experts said a person's heart would explode.
1:25.0	There was a giant psychological barrier and Roger Banister realized something.
1:30.0	If I'm going to do something that's considered impossible, I can't do it by myself.
1:34.0	So, Sir Roger Bannister, that's a name that will be remembered forever, like Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong.
1:41.0	First man on the moon, first person to climb Everest, first person to break the four minute mile.
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