I know you like practical applications, and while I was reading Wikipedia about an old NES game character, I saw this…

Re: “Glass Joe” on “Punch Out!”: “Glass Joe’s debut was in the first Punch-Out!! game for the arcades in 1984. According to an editor of UGO Networks, the character’s role in the arcade game was to give young players a sense of accomplishment, which motivated them to spend quarters trying to beat the more difficult opponents that appear afterward.”

Thought you’d love to know about that!

Our lives are largely made up of those automatic behaviors.

I focused mostly on strategies that can be successfully employed to create a nurturing environment for success. I usually work with women who struggle with PTSD, GAD and SAD. They have often been traumatized and victimized, usually in a trusting relationship. Due to that damage, they have developed very debilitating definitions to their situational and contextual cues, thus develop very dysfunctional behavior patterns in relationship as a result.

I referenced Charles’ work during this workshop for further reading. I also referenced research that confirms what ultimately determines whether or not our strategies for habit changes are set up for success or failure.

Another gentleman’s work on habit change (to continue your dialogue on habits and behaviors), Jeremy Dean, was featured on Huffingtonpost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-dean/how-to-break-any-bad-habi_b_2535787.html . You might find his work enlightening as well.

Most people do not realize they have set themselves up for failure for any goal they wish to achieve, because they do not take into consideration the cues they use to automate most of their reactions to life’s stimuli.

When we set up our contextual and situational clues for our brains to trigger the appropriate response – we are more likely to initiate a change in a habit or create a new habit effortlessly.

The free ebook I offer my website covers strategies we can employ to rapidly re-pattern any behavior effortlessly. It’s written for women to share with them how to make, powerful, rapid changes in their lives, no matter their circumstances.

Thank you so much for sharing this interview with us. I loved it.

I actually wrote a few articles on my site on Habits too a while ago – basically explaining that the commonly held view that doing something for 30 days is not always enough to form a habit – you need to look at the trigger and reward aspects of habits for them to really stick – I mention Charles’ book too and he gives several great examples in there as you say.

The part I find most fascinating is that once a ‘spike’ is formed around the reward, that spike actually moves forwards in time due to anticipation of that reward, well, not just that, I find the whole subject fascinating 😉

Great stuff…

So glad I listened to this podcast today. The segment on small wins gave me insight on the power of keeping your or your client’s momentum using this mentality. By the way, the book ‘The Power of Habit’ is now on my iPad – looking forward to reading it after work!