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# habits

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40:22Success norms: the habits that shape usLouise Hill: I think for me, it is, as a leader, it's normalizing it. So, I think to the extent you feel able to, talking about how you feel about money, talking about the mistakes you've made, talking about the fact thaEP 272 · 3 Feb 2026·panel interview· 40:22–43:5515:36Step one: noticing the busyness badgeAl Elliott: So if someone's listening to this and it's resonating deeply, they're going, do you know what? I am wearing busyness as a badge. Can you give them something, some practical steps in saying how they climb downEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 15:36–17:316:53Better habits to replace checking behaviourLeanne Elliott: What's driving that? What— why am I failing at actually detaching from work? Elaine Smith: We know that obviously we're primed for it, right? So we have the phone everywhere. So it's not like you have to EP 219 · 31 Jul 2025·interview· 6:53–8:128:12Practising not checking before your holidayLeanne Elliott: What's a better habit to form than to deal with that anxiety? than the checking behaviors? Elaine Smith: Um, well, say we're talking about if you're, if you're on holiday, I do recommend for, for some peoEP 219 · 31 Jul 2025·interview· 8:12–9:3441:07Bonus tip: Small habits now, big shocks laterLeanne Elliott: It's so important, and it's, oh, it sounds really cheesy and cliché, doesn't it? To look on the bright side. Where's that silver lining? Every cloud. The fact is that this is, this is rooted in positive pEP 201 · 2 Jun 2025·other· 41:07–47:3017:15Can one pillar compensate for another?Leanne Elliott: Is it possible to focus on one variable to compensate for another? So, if I'm thinking 6.5 hours of sleep is about all I'm going to get a night over the next 6 months, but I'm going to work really hard onEP 171 · 13 Feb 2025·interview· 17:15–19:3727:41Practical steps to break the excuse habitJames Fleming: So what are the excuses? Write it down. What is the excuse? What is the belief that they're telling themselves? And then think, what's the opposite? Yeah, what's the opposite belief? You know, and, and it'EP 165 · 23 Jan 2025·interview· 27:41–29:386:41Building mental fitness — individual responsibility and habit formationAl Elliott: So now we know what mental fitness is, Let's just dive into a little bit more about how we can build our mental fitness levels Sean Tolram: There's a massive individual responsibility, and I think that's an aEP 70 · 21 Dec 2023·panel interview· 6:41–8:5139:21Clip 10 — Kevin Dahlstrom: the way you do anything is the way you do everythingAl Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. So my next choice is Kevin Dahlstrom. He was such an interesting guy. Um, it's another founder story. He founded a company called Swell, which is a fintech. I think I've read EP 52 · 17 Aug 2023·other· 39:21–44:5525:21Lesson 2: The Way You Do Anything Is the Way You Do EverythingLeanne Elliott: It really is. So that is our first leadership lesson from Kevin: values are for life, not for walls. Kevin's second leadership lesson takes this idea one step further by saying, the way you do anything isEP 44 · 21 Jun 2023·other· 25:21–30:10

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