Episode #291
Identify and intentionally override default behaviors with deliberate, logical choices.
Engineer your environment to make good habits easy and bad habits hard by removing temptations, reducing friction, and adding barriers.
Use awareness and accountability tools—journaling, after-action reviews, coaching, and concrete commitments—to surface and change unconscious patterns.
We have to logically override the default.
Your default is what's holding you back right now.
Delete social media apps from your phone.
Have you ever finished a work task then found yourself automatically checking your inbox or social media?
Have you ever walked past a tray of cookies and just grabbed one without even thinking about it?
Have you ever hit the snooze button?
This is the default. This is what’s holding you back from your next level; from achieving that goal that always seems just out of reach.
So, what can you do about it?
During a recent personal performance coaching session with a client there was a specific, powerful phrase that I said that he keyed on.
“Logically override the default.”
I encourage you to 1) listen to this episode and 2) do as my client said he was going to do—write the phrase on the wall above your computer!
Tune in now and let’s talk about the 10 ways you can logically override your default.
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