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Harness your habits as a leadership strength
Do you have any bad habits? How many times have you tried to break them? New book by James Clear is an awesome antidote to intractable bad habits, and creating ones that nudge us towards what we really want. I walk you through the key points, and use myself as a guinea pig. (Nothing like fear of public shaming to create accountability!)
Why you should listen: leadership strategies for sustainable behaviour change
How to avoid being a Sea Squirt and not eat your own brain
Real behaviour change is identity change
Four steps to real change: cue, craving, response, and reward
We explore building good habits around your leadership principles
#boundlessleadership
Shownotes:
EDGE OF LEADERSHIP UNCONFERENCE, 21-22 March 2019
Oura Ring - for tracking sleep
James Clear, Atomic Habits - An Easy and Proven Way To Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
KEY POINTS FROM THE BOOK:
With habits, we are looking for three layers of change:
Change outcomes
Change process
Change Identity
“Many people begin the process of changing their habits by focusing on what they want to achieve. This leads us to outcome-based habits. The alternative is to build identity-based habits. With this approach, we start by focusing on who we wish to become.”
The third and deepest layer is changing your identity. This level is concerned with changing your beliefs: your worldview, your self-image, your judgments about yourself and others. Most of the beliefs, assumptions, and biases you hold are associated with this level."
FOUR STEP PROCESS FOR NEW HABITS:
CUE
CRAVING
RESPONSE
REWARD
"Rewards are the end goal of every habit. The cue is about noticing the reward. The craving is about wanting the reward. The response is about obtaining the reward. We chase rewards because they serve two purposes: (1) they satisfy us and (2) they teach us."
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Related episodes leadership principles:
E100 - RESET your rituals, boundaries, and habits for a brilliant new year
E97 - Habits and Meetings, plus book review of The 25 Minute Meeting with Donna McGeorge
E37 - How to change even the most stubborn bad habits - Interview with Lisa Lahey
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on harnessing your habits as a leadership strength
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.