
Taking a look at the interesting role of habits in our life.
How habits help us have a more purposeful life and how they convert to our worst enemies sometimes.
What is willpower from a scientific point of view and what is its role in controlling and forming habits?
The role of self-control in the quality of life.
The impact of our genetics and childhood education on the level of our willpower.
Is it possible to increase willpower according to science?
What are the success habits?
Famous psychological studies on the strengths and weaknesses of willpower.
The jobs that drain our willpower most.
Is there any way to recover the lost willpower?
The relation between willpower and blood sugar.
The best nutrition for maximizing willpower.
The best and the worst foods for willpower.
How our sleep time affects our willpower?
What is mental fatigue and how to avoid it?
Stress, the biggest enemy of willpower.
Motivation and willpower.
Can we change our brains in our favor?
The 4 main techniques for reinforcing willpower.
Making good habits and empowering the willpower.
Introducing the easiest method for making new good habits.
The habit of doing a job is more important than the job itself.
What good habits to start with?
Different arenas of good habits.
The first 3 steps for making good habits.
The last two steps for making good habits.
How long it takes for a behavior to become a habit?
Willpower vs motivation in making good habits.
Using the Five Second Rule in making good habits.
The brain can't concentrate on "not doing".
How "defeat" and "failure" differ?
The Upward Spiral strategy in quitting bad habits.
How to put aside the "victim mentality"?
Taking the responsibility of who you are right now.
How to use the "growth instinct" in the quitting cycle?
Why harmful behaviors are pleasurable but useful ones painful?
How bad habits affect our brains?
The role of Dopamine hormone in shaping bad habits.
The "reward system" in the brain and the way it works.
Which bad habit to start quitting with?
How should we change our brain to quit a bad habit?
The "withdrawal symptoms" in the quitting process.
Committing to the quitting process.
Getting "awareness" of your bad habit.
How to monitor your bad habit?
Spotting the "triggers" of your bad habit.
Recognizing the "patterns" of your bad habit.
Implementation Intentions in quitting a bad habit.
How to use safety behaviors for dealing with hard times in quitting.
How to change your physical environment?
How to change the data and information you consume?
How to change the people you interact with?
Techniques for dealing with bad emotions and thoughts of quitting period:
Delaying
Self-awareness
Wave Surfing
How to monitor your streak?
Techniques for dealing with bad emotions and thoughts of quitting period:
Accepting Negative Feelings
Relapse Simulation
Seeing the Big Picture
Recording the Waves
Controlling fantasizing about the bad habit.
What is considered a relapse?
3 techniques for handling a relapse and avoid binging.
Troubleshooting techniques:
Troubleshooting of external triggers.
Troubleshooting of internal triggers.
Getting ready to start the next round of abstinence.
Living without a purpose.
Difference between a "wish" and a "goal".
Who are you right now? Who you want to become?
Long term vs short term goal setting.
Single goal vs multiple goals.
5 methods to find a "one sentence life purpose".
Choosing your success habits.
Developing your success habits.
Setting the "desired limit" for your success habits.
Monitoring your success habits.
The aim of this program
This course is designed to show that quitting bad habits and making good ones is totally possible but only when we know exactly how habits are shaped, how they work, and how we can change them in our favor.
The problem is not that we don’t know what is good for us and what is not, we know it better than anyone else, but the real problem is that most of the time we don’t know how we can add good behaviors to our life and how it’s possible to kick the bad habits out.
Struggling with Bad Habits
We all know that our bad habits are either mentally or physically harmful. They keep us back; they don’t let us become the person that we have always wanted to be. They don’t let us pursue our goals and fulfill our dreams.
Many of us are engaged with some sorts of destructive behaviors. Like drug use, alcohol addiction, smoking, sexual misbehaviors like excessive masturbation or watching pornography, or even compulsive use of video games or social media, and in general, the internet. Or bad nutrition habits like over-eating or dependency to high calory foods like junk foods and sweets. Or other negative habits like laziness or procrastination or lack of perseverance with our duties.
why can’t we get rid of our bad habits? Why can some people quit their bad habits and make a new version of themselves, but we have failed every single time we have tried? Some of us, after several failures, might come up with this dangerous idea that "I am not able to change myself and I have to live with my bad habits and addictions for the rest of my life".
Adding Good Habits
When we take a close look at the daily routines of successful people, we see that their lives are full of good habits and almost free of many harmful behaviors that ordinary people usually have in their lives. For example, they rise early, they read a lot, they learn new things all the time, they are good at socializing and networking, they are disciplined, they exercise regularly, they have perseverance with their goals and many other examples of positive habits.
The question is, why aren’t we able to make these good habits in our life? Why every time we decide to exercise, after a few times of going to the gym, we start feeling a huge resistance in ourselves that doesn’t let us go further. Or every time we decide to rise early, after just a few days, we feel the same internal resistance, pushing us back to our previous routine. How have those successful people managed to develop a package of good habits in their life and why can’t we do so?
This program is not all about theory
This course is practical. We want to make a tangible change in our life, we don’t want just to add a bunch of theories or concepts to our minds. If you don’t do the exercises of this program, nothing will change in your life, I promise.