On this episode Kat talks about one of the questions she gets asked most often and is something she struggled with for years: How do you actually stick to a habit?

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You can make a habit manageable by focussing on it for 5-10 minutes at a time or make it attractive by giving yourself a reward afterwards. For example, I don’t have a morning coffee until I’ve done my exercise habit.
• In every single talk I give I ask the same question: If you were to stick to this habit for the next 21 days, what do you think the impact would be on your life? There’s something really powerful when you stop and think about what’s on the other side.
• It’s difficult because you don’t always see the immediate gain or the dopamine hit that you get off a lot of unhealthy and toxic habits. But you do get to achieve those long-term, important things that you want for your life.
• The more you practice overriding the thoughts that are trying to stop you from doing the habit you’re trying to commit to and the more you hammer in the new thoughts of why am I doing this, because I want to have more energy, be a better parent, go and visit that place, whatever it is, that becomes easier when you become clear on why you’re doing it.

BEST MOMENTS

“One of the most important things we overlook when it comes to sticking to a habit is digging deep and asking ourselves why we are even bothering with this change?”
“Whenever I get the thought that I can’t be bothered or haven’t got time, I have another thought: How am I going to feel after I do this?.”
“I have so many dreams and goals that depend upon me having a healthy body and brain to achieve them, like places I want to travel to, I can’t do that if I’m not healthy enough to get there.”
“The feeling of feeling good, strong and healthy is now my motivation and discipline, it helps with the consistency.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

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