Dan Lawrence

Just master the art of showing up.

It has not got to be the best session ever.

The person who wins a tortoise and the hare is the one that just shows up consistently.

Whether you believe the Harvard Business Study of 66 days of repetitive action, then it becomes a habit or not.

There's evidently some truth in that.

For me, there has to be some context around the habit you were trying to formulate.

Some habits might be low-end habits.

Some habits might be very challenging.

So James Clear talks a lot about habit stacking.

If you always forget to have your multivitamins or your vitamin D like we spoke about earlier in the morning, well, maybe put your sups next to your toothbrush because the chances are you're going to be brushing your teeth in the morning and that might trigger a new habit.

And that's what habit stacking is.

So whether it's 66 days or other, who knows?

But what we do know is that when you do formulate a habit, it then starts becoming automated.

And that's the key, is that if we're looking, going back to the identity conversation that we had, if we're looking to build identity, habits will help formulate identity over time.

So there is no definitive, it will take X amount of days, in my opinion, whether you believe the Harvard study or not.

But what we try and do is make habits easy

So that's where things like habit stacking can really play a role.

So environment audit, identify the habit you're trying to build, potentially use a system like habit stacking, and then roll with that habit for long enough that it then just becomes ingrained.

Because people say to me, Charles, like, Dan, how'd you do it?

How'd you show up every single day?