Micro Habits: The 5 Minute Changes That Actually Transform Your Life (+ Exclusive Audiobook Preview)

Happy New Year, Damien. Happy New Year, Jake. Look at this, the January 2, and you and I are together. Oh, yeah. What a great way to welcome in 2026. Start the year as you mean to go on with your colleagues. Thank you. Look. What we actually thought we would do to start the year for the wonderful listeners to High Performance is give them a little something that they are hopefully gonna take into the new year and use to really make a difference. Right? So as you know, because we wrote it together, we have a brand new book that has been out for twenty four hours. Do you have micro habits? Micro habits, and it's it's basically taking the biggest lessons and the learnings that we've taken from so many conversations on high performance. Because what we've realized over the years is that your dreams don't determine where you go. Your habits do. Your habits determine whether those dreams become a reality or not. So we've created a book. It's called micro habits, and I thought we could maybe talk about the book at a moment. But maybe to start with, let's just play the introduction to people listening so they can hear a snippet of the audiobook and get a good understanding of what it's about. That's a great idea. Okay. So here it is. This is the introduction to the brand new book available now from myself and Damien. This is Microhabits. What if you could change your life in less than five minutes? Introduction. Small, simple, speedy. The Australian sun was shining brightly. The blue sky was shimmering in the early morning heat, and the green grass of the rugby pitch had never looked so inviting. But the words I was hearing weren't nearly as enticing. We're gonna start tackling practice now, explained Tony Smith, the charismatic head coach of England Rugby League. Would you mind holding one of the tackle pads? With a gulp, I nodded my ascent and trotted onto the training field. I gathered the bag, treading my arms through the straps to ensure it was held tightly. My insides felt equally tight. Jamie Peacock, the six foot five inch leviathan, standing 30 yards away, looked like he'd been carved out of granite. As he poured the ground, eager to commence the drill, the whole of the England camp paused their activities. Their faces were filled with an undisguised zeal at their imminent firework display, just waiting for the blue touch paper to be lit. Many teams have induction processes for new recruits. Over the years, I've been forced to sing songs, recount board the encounters, even deliver a joke in front of the most hostile of audiences, your colleagues, but this was different. I had yet to experience the joy of being run into full pelt by the captain of England Rugby League. This is my induction, I thought resignedly. As Peacock began his run up, I braced for …