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"ATOMIC HABITS" (Chapter 16): How Do You Stick with Good Habits | Keto Mom Book Club

Updated: Oct 11, 2021


Keto Mom here!

There's no perfection. We love to say, "Don't mess up good for perfect". You will have a day where things didn't go your way, but whenever this happens, remind yourself of a simple rule "Never miss twice"... So just like what Jerry Seinfeld said, "Never break the chain". You're creating the momentum and the habit. It's about doing something and not breaking the chain. But if the chain gets severed, if the consistency of what you were doing breaks, Never do it twice.


Points to Ponder


00:35 "Atomic Habits" by James Clear

01:51 Fueling your mind right

02:37 How do you stick with good habits every day

02:51 Learning, doing and teaching

03:48 The Twenty three year old stockbroker

05:11 You're making progress

05:20 Different measurements of success

05:31 Habit Trackers

06:12 Benjamin Franklin

07:41 Don't break the chain, is a powerful mantra

08:14 Habit Tracking keeps you Honest

10:53 How to recover quickly, when a habit breaks down

11:08 "Don't mess up good for perfect"

12:05 Recreating your identity

13:07 Creating a bad habit

15:20 Keto Mom page

15:40 None scale victories


Full Episode Transcript


Good morning everybody! I am hiding outside mainly because I've got friends still, that are visiting us from Oklahoma. We've got people sleeping, and I got to watching creed. This is the most quiet place to talk to you. So as you're tuning in, where are you tuning in from? My name is Stephanie and welcome to the Keto mom page. I do have a morning face, you could say workout face, just non showered face. But we're going through "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, every single day. So I hope that you're catching up on some of the lives or the replays about this book. The other day I said this chapter is incredible. I think it was chapter twelve or thirteen, and now the chapter we're going through today is also incredible.

It's going to help you put a good section of the beginning together if you take the action. If I'm really quiet, you can hear the birds over the lake but I'm not going t