Dr. Michelle Rozen
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first heard Dec 2024
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And there's a tremendous amount of pain in the world, especially these days, with people that want things, with their relationships, with their money, with their health. And they keep dropping the ball. And a lot of times people ask me, oh, you know, Michelle, how do I why do I lack confidence? How do I get more confident? And, you know, Mike, confidence breeds success. Success breeds confidence.
And what's nice about the six percent club is that. You start from the little things, you automate them, you know, you start small and it works. And then you say to yourself, wow, this is really cool. I am putting the keys away. I am going to the gym every day. This is so cool. Let me pick a bigger goal.
And you follow the same methodology and it's not complicated and it's not overwhelming and it works. So then your confidence grows. You know, you say to yourself, oh my gosh, I'm so cool. Yeah. I did it. Let me pick a bigger goal. And so there's an accumulating effect of generating those successes, you know, one after the other, one after the other. Start small. It gets big over time.
And so in that respect, it's a process of becoming. You become, you know, a 6%. Or a lot of people come to me and they say, you know what, Michelle, I'm going to be a 6%.
and i know that it's possible because it's very underwhelming it's really not complicated it's just a different approach to creating a list and doing all those things and you know overwhelming yourself so take if you can take a couple of those things you said that people want to live better so they want more money they want to be healthy and and create a a common goal and how do you put your toe in the water
I'll give you a real-life example. Last week. So last week, I'm giving a keynote. One of the attendees goes up to the stage. And she shared that her goal is to eat healthier. She's telling the audience, I'm working with a new coach at the gym. And I want to eat healthier. And the coach also said that I need to eat healthier, but I can't do it.
You know, every time I say I'm going to eat healthier and it's not working out for me. And the coach is a little annoyed with me and I don't know what to do. So what we did together, I said to her, listen, eating healthier is very overwhelming because what does that even mean?
You know, if for the last 30 days, 30 days, 30 years, you're used to eating in a certain way, your brain gets so overwhelmed. Like, what do you mean eat? What does that even mean? Drops the whole thing. So I said, for the next 30 days, all you're gonna do is just change your lunch. That's all you're gonna focus on. I don't care what you eat for the rest of the day. You're gonna do that.
You're gonna automate it. After you automate it for 30 days, once you hit the 30 days mark, it's automated in your brain. Now, just change your snack.
And I said, if you look at the next six months, your likelihood of succeeding in changing your eating habits in the next six months, if you follow that methodology versus I'm going to eat healthier, get overwhelmed, drop the whole thing is incredibly higher. And that's how you reach transformation.
But let's take just what you said, Mike. I love that because that was so specific and granular, right? I call that the law of specification. So you were just super specific. You said $5 every day, right? So if you said for the next 30 days, all I need to do is every day, I need to transfer $5 into this saving account. Super simple.
Problem is, like you said, people are like, oh, you know, I was busy today. I didn't do it. I don't know if it's even going to work. But that's the goal you set for yourself. The first thing you do, you manipulate your environment. So you set a reminder on your phone every day at the same time.
What do I do at 545? I transfer $5 into my savings account. And so that's how you use. It's a specific goal. It's very attainable. All you need to do is automate it. And then it becomes a habit. And then you can say, you know what? Second month, I'm going to transfer $10 into my savings account every day at 545. So you do that. And so over time, you get yourself into habits that build you.
And you can do that in every single aspect of your life. It's simple. It's specific, it's doable, and it's a lot more attainable than to say, I'm going to save so much more money this year. You know, definitely going to do it. Get overwhelmed. The brain doesn't even know what it means. Drop the whole thing. So much more attainable, so much simpler.
Exactly. Exactly. And that's what your brain says. Your brain says, I don't know what you mean. You know, think about it this way, Mike. The brain takes about 20% of the overall body energy. So the brain is very costly to the body in terms of energy. 20% is a lot. And it's 20% just to do what you know how to do already, just to live.
Every time you ask your brain to do something different, to start a new habit, You're asking for a lot. And so your brain would prefer to do what it knows how to do already. So if you say every time, oh, yeah, I'm going to save so much more money and you don't do it. The next time you say it, your brain would say, can we just can we just do that? Can we just like drop the whole thing?
Because that's what you I have a neural pathway for that. If you want to curb your brain's tendency to pull you towards your old habits, the only way you can do that is by using what I call the law of specification, which means you get really specific and granular. Don't just say, I'm gonna save more money. Get as specific and as granular as possible. So you say, I'm gonna save $5 a day.
I'm gonna save $100 a month. I'm gonna do that every last day of the month. Whatever it is that your plan is, Be as specific and as granular as possible. Otherwise, I promise you, your brain will prefer, just for saving energy purposes, to pull you towards your old ways. And that's not what you want.
There's nothing wrong with setting big goals. Nothing wrong. I love setting big goals. I set big goals for myself. I think that big goals are exciting. As long as you take whatever goals and whatever goal you have for yourself, you don't owe anyone an explanation why you want to save $5 or why you want to save $1,000 or why you want to take, doesn't matter. It has to be important for you.
And I have a tool for that, but it's called a zero to 10 rule. And the zero to 10 rule is a tool for a lot of things. But one of the things that it measures is how much you care about something, right? So if you don't really care, I asked my daughter the other day, my youngest one, my 16 year old, you know, she said she's not going to the gym as much as she thought she would.
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