• Plans are the bridge between setting goals and achieving them. Without them, your goals are just dreams. • HOW and WHY work differently in the brain. Both require dedicating time to understanding them. • Small steps allow for mini-successes, which can give you bursts of motivating dopamine. • Planning is an Innercise. When you do it, you’re chang

Reset your system: Learn and practice calming your circuits using the Take 6 Innercise. 2. Increase awareness: Become aware of your inner Frankenstein using the What’s Going on Here? Innercise. 3. Improve your self-talk: Learn to feed the positive with the Kill the ANTS Innercise. 4. Strengthen your agility: Learn to shift from negative to positive

We need to make sure we activate not just the parts of the brain that help us create the goal but also the parts of the brain that help get us there. Spend all your time in “why” and you’re a dreamer who never takes action. Spend all your time in “how” and you might be busy, but with what?

You need to be vivid.

Principle 2: Use Existing Habits to Build New Ones

On this last point, use your imagination to feel what it’s like to truly be in this new reality. Emotionalize your vision. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t immerse yourself in this exercise at first. It takes practice to focus your attention through spaced repetition over many days. The objective is to practice until the vision feels normal. Don’t

even see some of those legendary “abs” that you hear people talk about. On Day 1, you get up early and go for a long walk. It’s the first time you’ve really exercised in years, and you feel energized. You eat a healthy breakfast, and then head for the bathroom. First stop, the scale. Wait a minute, you think. Something’s wrong. My weight hasn’t cha

This reset can then usher in the next step to increase your awareness of more empowering choices. A great method for starting your reset is the Take 6 Innercise.

For the next five to seven days, repeat the following new story and affirmations twice per day: Step 1. Write a story of your future life; one where you have already achieved your most important goals and visions for your life. Include positive statements, in the present tense, such as