Beyond SMART Goals Part 2: - Creating the external frameworks to achieve your intentions.

Episode Summary:

In this episode of "Blasphemous Nutrition," Aimee discusses the importance of creating external frameworks to achieve health goals, emphasizing that successful goal achievement is not willpower, but skill power. She shares strategies she and her clients have successfully used as well as principles from the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear to guide listeners in transforming their goals into actionable steps and offers practical tips for reducing obstacles and increasing ease in making positive changes.

Key Takeaways:

• Focusing on the outcome of a goal can be problematic. Instead, create new habits to bring about lasting change.
• Break down goals into small, repeatable habits that can be monitored regularly for progress.
• Create systems and methodologies to support the implementation of new habits and track progress.
• Modify the external environment to reduce obstacles and make positive behaviors easier to adopt.
• Celebrate small successes to reinforce belief in one's ability to make lasting changes.

Notable Quotes:

• "To create change effectively, we have to maintain this change in our behavior by creating new habits."
• "The key to making lasting habit change is to reduce the obstacles that make it hard and increase the ease of making the change."
• "Goals are about the results you want to achieve, and systems are about the processes that will lead to those results."
• "Building incremental small changes can lead to a complete transformation over time."
• "Be the person who intentionally does the actions and habits of the person you want to become."

Resources:

Photography by: Dai Ross Photography
Podcast Cover Art: Lilly Kate Creative
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• Book: "Atomic Habits" by James Clear

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