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04/11/2017

Habitry is officially partnering with Lift The Bar: Education and Support for Personal Trainers!

Get ready for the biggest hands-on autonomy support program in the world.

We have been working closely with Lift the Bar already (including joining their members last year for their first annual conference and kicking off their client habit programs at LTB HQ), and in 2017 we'll be stepping up our partnership.

The first thing that Lift the Bar members can look forward to is the next issue of Habitry’s motivation science journal The Motivator — exclusively for Lift the Bar! Look out for that this summer. Second, we’ll be expanding our involvement with LTB’s trainer education program. And we’ll share the best of the motivation science education we refined in our Habitry Professionals membership.

As part of fulfilling Habitry’s mission to help the most people help the most people, we've learned how much more impact we can have as part of a great, holistic education like Lift the Bar. We’re excited to join forces with LTB to reach their goal to positively impact one million training hours.

Special note to our own Habitry Professionals members: starting now, you’ll have access to all the benefits of Lift the Bar membership. If you’re a Habitry Pro, check the member site for more details.

And if you’re reading this and you’re not a coach, check out our new offering for everyone: Betterish. We’re spinning off Habitry’s “habits for everyone” efforts into its own thing. Betterish produces our new podcast, the bettercast, and we’ll be releasing even more stuff in 2017, drawing from what we’ve learned from talking to real people about change that matters to them.

04/05/2017

On of the coolest things that came out of my conversation with Dr. Nadia Brown on bettercast #15 was the idea of telling people, before you ask them for anything, that they can say "no" and it won't hurt your feelings. She says this especially effective when talking to women, who are socialized to be agreeable. It builds trust (and is just the decent thing to do). More profound, Dr. Nadia says this is doubly true in *sales conversations.* WTF, right?! But it makes perfect sense. Here's why:
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We know from the meta-analysis Carpenter (2012) that reminding people at the point of purchase that they are free to refuse requests actually results in higher concordance to request. The underlying mechanism here is probably supporting the person's autonomy results in a momentary increase in self-determined motivation. But beyond that, it's just a decent thing to do. People are autonomous humans, and reminding of them that can't hurt and clearly might help everyone involved.

04/04/2017

How many times do you have to do something you hate before you love it?
"100 noes" with Dr. Nadia Brown is now live.
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03/24/2017

Coming Monday... bettercast #14 with

03/22/2017

bettercast #13 with Kent Davis

https://soundcloud.com/bettercast/13-writing-a-book-when-you-dont-know-how

03/21/2017

Preview of our latest episode! YA fantasy author Kent Davis explains how he figured out how to write novels even though he’d never taken a creative writing class.

02/27/2017

Episode 10 of the bettercast just hit the airwaves!

Hear the fascinating, emotional story of why Lauren decided to learn the banjo.

If you were the most-produced living playwright in the USA, you probably wouldn’t consider taking up a new art form. But Lauren Gunderson did just that, in a tribute to someone who loved the banjo. Th

01/31/2017

"I've been building science labs with rooms that compensate for the earth's magnetic field for 5 years and cutting hair for 3. My grandfather always told me to keep things diverse. I started by pre-fabbing some of the parts when I was an undergraduate at UCSC. It's essentially like framing a house. Except with steel or nickel plates. You use electricity to create a magnetic field that is perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field so scientists can use extremely precise instruments. I'm the workhorse of the team. They need guys like me to move and shape things. It takes about a month to build a room. I usually take the time off from cutting hair. I've been all over the world doing it. Cambridge. Harvard. I was in Israel at Hebrew University in January. When I got started, it was just right place, right time. And a group of guys that are willing to teach you. That's the best way to approach any new craft. Or anything. Find a team of guys that are willing to hang out with you and teach you while you hang out." - , barber & guy who helps people make rooms that counteract the earth's magnetic field.

01/30/2017

New episode of the bettercast: What would happen if you just unfollowed the things that made you feel bad? In a world with millions of social media options, it's becoming more important to be judicious in what you consume. People often audit their diets, but have you ever logged what social media you consume and how it makes you feel? began doing just that about a year ago, and it turns out the answer is not so simple. She explores the pros and cons of controlling your social media feeds in this open conversation about the impact that they have had on her life and self-image.

https://soundcloud.com/bettercast/8-changing-your-social-media-habits

01/27/2017

“I’ve always been a note taker. I was an adult student and that was how I got straight-As in school was lots of notes and lots of questions. My way to take notes is to hand-write them (which means I can’t read them) and then that evening while it’s still fresh in my mind, I type them in the computer in an organized fashion. And then I print them out and put them in a binder. Then I have my own binder of how to do everything. I’ve been here for 2 months and came in knowing nothing and I feel pretty comfortable here. Now I feel like that I can handle it and it’s because of my notes.” - Debra, Office Manager

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01/26/2017

“So I started taking taking spin class a few months ago, and I hated it. HATED IT. I thought I was going to die, I thought it was fu***ng stupid, I hated it. And mostly what I hated was that I couldn’t do pieces of it—like speed drills? No. I’m not built for speed. And so now I’ve probably been going for almost 6 months, and I can actually get through speed drills. The transition started maybe a month and a half ago. I had this epiphany in one class because the teacher got off the bike and was saying ‘Yeah! Now we’re doing this!’ And he was, like, dancing. He was saying ‘Back! Forward! Back!’ while he was dancing and I was like ‘Well f**kin-A it’s just dancing!! I can dance on the bike!!!’ After I shifted my mental paradigm about the movement on the bike at that speed, then my body caught up to the physical capability of being able to actually execute that movement. And it’s fun now! I actually really enjoy it. And the second thing: If the music’s not great, I’m a little less motivated to hit the cadence. But when we had a class where we were spinning to a Niki Minaj song, ‘Money,’ I was like ‘OOOOH S**T!!! I’m hitting every single one!!!’ And it was the first time I hit every speed drill in the song…I did almost die. But it was awesome.” - Emily, Raconteur & Spin Enthusiast

01/24/2017

"When I first started this business, I was doing bookkeeping and accounting, but I wasn’t doing it well. I was just using a spreadsheet and putting stuff on it. It wasn’t a good tool for capturing information, and I didn’t have good habits so I would just fall off entering information and lose track of everything. I was shying away from all these opportunities. Investors who might want to see some data, stuff like that. I was thinking, 'these are things that are not for me' but it was just my bad bookkeeping habits. Then I felt even worse when a few months down the road when I was like, 's**t. I don’t even know how I’m gonna pay taxes.' I told a friend who is a CFO, 'hey I really need help with this.' He sat down with me over the course of a few weeks. He first showed me how to set up a chart of accounts, then just some basic principles. There was a turning point, too. I got the Quickbooks app on my phone and I had this backlog of transactions I needed to sort. I remember being in my kitchen playing music on my headphones, and for an hour and half just logging stuff. It kinda clicked at that point. Now I don’t feel like it’s a daunting task and I can just kinda do it wherever I am. Ever since then, I get excited about it because I started to see the result of it. Later, I overheard my CFO friend telling some people, 'Trevor is really good at accounting. Like, he could have been an accountant.'" - Trevor, Business Owner, amateur accountant.

01/19/2017

“If you are able to step out of your comfort zone, and you are able to make the first move, people are so interested because you are out of their regular bubble. I did this experiment last March where I went out to meet the wealthiest people I could to just hang out with them. I was meeting millionaires around Lake Merritt and they would get me into all this VIP stuff and like, I literally don’t belong. They’re talking about selling companies and all this super-tech stuff and I’m like, ‘hi. I don’t know what quinoa is.’ It was Silicon Valley meets early 20’s Rapper-dude.”

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01/18/2017

”In my early 20s I got overly focused on ‘achievement.’ My friends criticized that I would ‘never stop to smell the roses.’ More and more, I realized that I wasn’t living in the moment and appreciating the little things that didn’t fit into what I had defined as ‘achievement.’ I had developed this overemphasis on self-regulation to the exclusion of being able to actually enjoy things. But I had no way of getting it back. I was this hopeless fish out of water. I could see where I needed to get back to, but the harder I tried the more elusive it was. I’d tried to solve everything in my life with more effort, but enjoyment is not something you can get with more effort. I kept hearing about mindfulness and meditation and the first time I tried it, it was so tough. It didn’t click at all the first few times I did it. Most people tell you to force it into your schedule at set times. ’Now is the time to be present!’ But eventually, I tried something else— I would look for opportunities in my day were I felt even the barest spark of interest in the moment, and just fan that spark. To this day, one of the coolest memories I have, is a moment when we were on the New Zealand coastline looking over the water. There was this sailboat race going on, we had just gotten some chocolates and we were sitting in the shade of this tree just watching the boats across the water. Everything in that moment was exactly how I wanted it to be, and through practice I had developed just enough awareness to realize that moment wasn’t going to last forever. And If I don’t appreciate that it’s going away, that I would never truly appreciate it. I stumbled into mindfulness that day. That was 6 years ago and I remember that moment more clearly than almost anything in my life. Because it was the first time that I realized what ‘being in the moment’ was.” - Joe, Entrepreneur

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01/17/2017

“I think confidence has always been a real issue for me. You know, not thinking I’m good enough or not having what it takes. About a year ago I went back and read Carol Dweck’s ’MindSet’ and got a lot more into just having that daily self-awareness and reflection. I just realized, ‘you’re a volunteer victim. You really are the one who’s holding yourself back.’ I just decided one day that there’s always something I can control and change. It’s a daily challenge. I have chatter in my head every single day and it’s constantly being pessimistic, it’s being negative, it’s going ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘I shouldn’t do this’ or ‘I’m not good enough.’ I’ve gotten a lot better at catching myself and not challenging it, but just kind of separating myself from it. And just realizing that, ‘these are words and pictures in your head. This isn’t you.’ Because the small successes I’ve had doing this have been proof that I do have what it takes. I can hold my own. I can have a conversation or build relationships with people that I want to. And it’s a real eye-opener—you go years and years or your whole life convincing yourself that you’re not good enough, and then you just see it just slowly break apart and break away. So you’re like, ‘how can I repeat this little bit of success every single day until it becomes almost like habit?’ It’s helped me take more risks that I wouldn’t have. Like leaving my last job. There was that comfort and security, that income. I have student loans! But I wasn’t happy. And I wasn’t able to reach out and help people in the capacity that I wanted to. It’s gonna be scary if I just leave and try to open my own business and do something that I wanna do, but in the long run, I’m gonna be able to help people the way I want to. I’m gonna be happy and I’m gonna make people happy. So that’s worth it. And I don’t think I would been able to take that step a year ago.” - Jenna, Entrepreneur

01/16/2017

New episode of the bettercast! This one features Dr. Heather Patrick and is all about resolutions and finding your tribe.

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Dr. Heather Patrick has designed some of the largest behavior change studies in history. We sit down to talk about why some people seem to achieve their New Year's goals and others struggle. She blows

01/16/2017