The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap - Getting Around it to Reach Your Goals
Scott Miker
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Read MoreImproving Systems and Habits
Using systems and habits to improve your life is a proven method to succeed. It requires seeing the work as a system and then adjusting your thoughts and behaviors to be able to take advantage of your opportunities in life.
What are your default settings?
Scott Miker
We come across default settings all the time. Have you ever stopped to think about how those default settings actually influence our decisions? Default settings are like habits and can be very powerful if left unchecked.
Read MoreThe two types of change and how to use them to improve your systems and habits
Scott Miker
Change is all around us. If we better understand revolutionary and evolutionary change we can use them to make improvements in our lives.
Read MoreCreate New Habits by using Implementation Intention
Scott Miker
Research shows that visualization alone doesn't help us to reach our goals. But the research is clear that using a technique called implementation intention can significantly improve success rate.
Read MoreHow does stress affect habits?
Scott Miker
Will increased stress cause us to revert to our habits and routines or will it cause us to abandoned them? Research has shown that there is a relationship between stress and habits.
Read MoreIf you don't take control of the systems and habits in your life, someone else will
Scott Miker
Only you can decide what direction to go. Others will continue to try and influence you based on their goals. This may align with your goals or it may not. The only way to truly avoid their influence is to gain control of the systems and habits in your life.
Read MoreAutomatic Habits
Scott Miker
Our mind is constantly looking for repetition and patterns. Then it can use the same exact behavior next time it thinks the pattern is repeating. This is often done without our conscious effort or even our comprehension that it is occurring.
Read MoreWhat’s Your System?
Scott Miker
The systems and habits in our lives are powerful. In order to use this power to transform your life, you have to be able to evaluate and adjust your routines to align with where you want to go.
Read MoreSystem Thinking and The Tao Te Ching
Scott Miker
There is an incredible flaw in the way humans think. Our brains function in a way where we naturally look for cause and effect, before and after, start and finish, pre and post, beginning and end. We think linearly.
Read MoreImprovement
Scott Miker
I have learned that the only way to truly see improvement is to focus 100% on changing our systems and habits. The systems and habits in our lives take control of our routines until they are so automatic that we do them automatically. Trying to change this isn’t as easy and quick as the products’ marketing and advertising claims.
Read MoreLearn to stop mistakes from becoming habits
Scott Miker
Our habits form as we repeat behaviors, actions, and thoughts. This means that positive or negative, habits will form when you make the same choices and decisions over and over again.
Read MoreThe Present
Scott Miker
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha
Read MoreFrom Failure to Success
Scott Miker
Looking back I now understand that this is a very common storyline for people. Knowing what to do is not directly related to actually doing it! Put another way, common sense and common behavior are often miles apart.
Read MoreThe Trap of Setting a Goal - Process Goals Versus Outcome Goals
Scott Miker
Read MoreGetting Back on Track
Scott Miker
Getting back to positive systems and habits after a break may seem impossible. What it really takes is a shift in perspective.
Read MoreThere is advantage in disadvantage
Scott Miker
It has long been known that there are advantages in disadvantage but too often we tend to focus on the limiting factors and not the potential benefits.
Read MoreThe Depth of Habits and Systems
Scott Miker
Everything we do follows a set pattern that we typically don’t recognize. The way we go through our day, the way we meet a stranger, the we we interact with our various social networks all stem from habits. We don’t act uniquely each time we meet someone. Actually we will tend to act in a very similar way each time.
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Continual Improvement
Scott Miker
The best way to succeed isn't to set a goal and focus solely on the effort needed to reach that goal. A better way is to focus on continual improvement by building the rights habits and systems in our lives.
Read MoreSuccess Habits
Scott Miker
What most of us fail to grasp is the incredible power the habits in our lives have over us. If you want to know what someone will be like in 10 years, just look at their current habits. Todays habits determine tomorrow’s version of us.
Read MorePut Your Plan Into Action Using The Rule of 5
Scott Miker
Learn how to build a system that focuses on consistent action and simplicity to reach your goals.
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