Good morning and
welcome to your morning Syria.
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Thursday.
For real this time, it
actually is Friday Eve
and today is also Autism Awareness Day.
It's a day to promote
understanding inclusion
and appreciation for
the unique perspective
that makes the world a
more interesting place
and compassionate place.
Well, now the answer to yesterday's
trivia question, 1977.
What a great year, right?
That was the year the
original Star Wars premiered, 1977.
And now the essential
vitamins in your morning cereal,
today's quote, and it's from
birthday guy turning 51 today,
Pedro Pascal, who said this quote,
"Kindness costs nothing,
but it means everything."
All right, your morning decode,
it's the simplest ROI
you'll ever get, right?
That's the return on investment,
small effort, massive impact.
All right, well, let's go ahead and hear
from the experts now.
It is time to pour in some
atomic habits by James Clear
and today's focus is habit stacking,
which is a simple plan
to overhaul your habits.
And this one is a
little bit of a game changer
for those of you looking
to change your habits here.
And it's because it answers the question,
how do you actually fit new habits
into a life that already feels full?
Does that hit home a little bit?
It definitely does for me.
All right, Clear
introduces habit stacking
as a strategy where
you attach a new habit
to an existing one.
The formula is simple, it's this.
After your current habit,
I will then insert the new habit.
So why does this work?
It works because your current habits,
they're already ingrained.
They happen automatically for you.
So instead of building
something from scratch,
you're actually just
piggybacking on behavior
that is already part of your routine.
Clear writes this, quote,
"One of the best ways
to build a new habit
"is to identify a current
habit you already do each day
"and then stack your
new behavior on top."
End quote.
It's efficient, it's practical,
and most importantly,
it's very repeatable.
So for example, after you
pour your morning coffee,
you might take a moment to write one
priority for that day.
After brushing your teeth,
maybe you do five pushups.
These small little additions,
well, they compound over time.
Now, another powerful
aspect is sequencing.
When you chain multiple
small habits together,
you create a routine
that flows naturally.
It's like building a playlist
instead of relying on one hit song.
Now, Clear also emphasizes that
consistency beats intensity.
You don't need to do something big,
you just need to do something regularly.
He says this, quote,
"Success is the product of daily habits,
"not once-in-a-lifetime transformations."
End quote.
Now, habit stacking reduces friction,
it removes decision fatigue,
and it turns intention into action.
All right, here it is.
Your Thursday takeaway is this,
attach new habits to existing ones
and progress becomes
automatic instead of optional.
All right, friends, go
lead with kindness today.
It travels further than you think.
Now, the prize from the
bottom of the cereal box,
the morning cereal
trivia question of the day.
Here it is.
What term describes
large single standing stones?
All right, hey, thanks for listening
to morning cereal today.
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for the answer to the trivia question
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