Quick Cut: S2E257 My Best Habits

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Many people get off track and drift into bad habits. In this episode, Brian shares some of his own personal experiences and teaches how he has worked to build upon his good habits and reduce or eradicate those that needed to be eliminated.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Bad habits he developed.

· Good habits he formed.

· 5 circle habits he recommends.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“To start a good habit, you actually have to introduce it to your conscious mind and do it so consistently that it then becomes formed in your unconscious mind.” – Brian Buffini

“High-performance behaviors have periods of drift and periods of setback.” – Brian Buffini

“We drift into bad habits. And then we just do them again and again.” – Brian Buffini

“There's a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, but isolation diminishes.” – Brian Buffini

“It's important that we stay connected to people.” – Brian Buffini

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.4	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:16.5	Top of the morning to you, Brian Bafini here and welcome to It's a Good Life.
0:21.2	The team thought it'd be great if I shared some of my best habits or things that are really helping me right now.
0:27.2	And so I thought I'd share some of those as little how-toes and maybe some things to think about.
0:32.0	First, I'm going to start with some bad habits I recently picked up.
0:35.3	And just, you know, I'm human, just like you and high performance
0:39.4	behaviors have periods of drift and periods of setback. I'm going to share my stuff, so hopefully
0:45.5	it'll help you see where you're at. And then I'm going to talk about some five circle habits,
0:50.8	that's spiritual family, business, financial, personal for this brand new year that's in it.
0:55.3	Okay. So I'm going to dive in here, be a little autobiographical, and share with you some habits that,
1:02.6	like all habits, by definition, as I talked about here recently, a pattern of behavior acquired by
1:10.1	frequent repetition. Any bad habit, I never intentionally said,
1:14.4	I'm going to start this bad habit on Monday and see if I can do it for 30 days straight.
1:19.5	I've never intentionally said anything like that in my life. What I will say to you about
1:24.5	bad habits versus good habits is that bad habits never have to be
1:28.8	entered into the conscious mind and submitted to the subconscious mind.
1:33.4	And we know that 80% of our actions come out of our subconscious or unconscious mind.
1:38.1	What I will say is that to start a good habit, you actually have to introduce it to your
1:43.5	conscious mind and do it so consistently
1:46.3	that it then becomes formed in your unconscious mind. Some bad habits I picked up during COVID.
1:53.5	First, I started spending too much time alone. Now, I am a guy who in his younger days
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