Forget Motivation, Just Do These 8 Boring Habits

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself. So if that's something that you wanna do, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm gonna be talking about why you should forget motivation and why you should just rely on these eight boring habits that I'm gonna be teaching you. Because if you're still waiting to feel like it before you change your life, you are going to be waiting forever. Motivation is not coming, and it is not something that you want to rely on to save you. No one is gonna come and give you clarity or confidence or discipline to take action. So in reality, you don't need a podcast episode today that hypes you up and motivates you. What you need is one that hands you a step by step system that you could take action on. A boring, repeatable, unsexy system that works even when you don't want to. In these eight habits, they'll change your life starting from the moment that you wake up, and they're built to help you make success autopilot for you. Let's dive into it. Let's talk about why I actually hate the word motivation and why motivation fails. Okay? Motivation is an emotion, and I think too many people are trying to rely on motivation before they do anything in their life. And the problem is you can't rely on an emotion because emotions are temporary. If you rely on motivation to start, you're gonna sometimes start, but most of the time you won't. And if you do that, you'll rarely get anything done. But if you rely on action and then momentum, you're actually building forward energy that will self sustain. And studies actually show this as well. There's a study done in 2009 in the European Journal of Social Psychology that found it takes about 66 for a behavior to become an automatic habit in your brain, not because of motivation, but because of your consistent action and repetition. So you don't need to feel good or motivated to get going. You don't need to believe in yourself to get going. You don't need to believe in yourself at all to take action. Action does not require belief, but getting going and actually taking that action is what starts to make you feel good. Progress equals happiness as Tony Robbins always says. And action, once you do it, will turn into momentum, which will then make you feel more motivated down the line. And so let's go over your new system. Okay? These are the eight boring habits that are gonna build real momentum in your life. Number one is to start with a fixed wake up time. And what you're gonna notice is I actually went step by …