The Cost of Your Good Habits is in the Present, The Cost of Your Bad Habits is in the Future – 110
Episode 110 of The Improvement Project is the fourth episode of our “Summer Shorts” shorter summer episodes. Today we discuss the concept that the cost of your good habits is in the present and the cost of your bad habits is in the future.
This is part of the reason why it’s so hard to maintain a good habit because the reward doesn’t come until later. A bad habit, on the other hand is difficult to kick because the reward is right now and the cost isn’t until the future.
Also if you didn’t hear it in the last couple of weeks, you’ll also get to hear my husband John’s voice as he helps us out with our intro and I also included a funny outtake of him doing the recording at the end of today’s episode. It’s worth a listen 🙂
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What You’ll Hear (and don’t want to miss!)
0:25: Intro: Listen in to hear my husband John share his voice as he helps to introduce the fourth of our summer short episodes.
1:43: Episode 110 of The Improvement Project is the fourth episode of our “Summer Shorts” shorter summer episodes. Today we want to discuss the concept that the cost of your good habits is in the present and the cost of your bad habits is in the future. This is part of the reason why it’s so hard to maintain a good habit because the reward doesn’t come until later. A bad habit, on the other hand is difficult to kick because the reward is right now and the cost isn’t until the future.
5:40: Outro (make sure to listen to the outtake at the end….it’s pretty funny (at least I think so)
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Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
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The Improvement Project podcast is hosted by Dr. Peggy Malone and Jenny Couse. Peggy is a health care provider who encourages her patients every day to create better habits associated with their health and wellness. She is wife to the hilarious and heavily bearded John, with whom she takes many adventures as well as Cat Mom to the floofy ragdoll Amigo Dr. Peggy is also a human being on a mission to create better habits for herself and by doing so, she hopes to inspire others to take up the challenge with her! Jenny is a marketing professional in the international trade sector. She and her husband Jeff are parents to hilarious 7 year old Ethan. Her year of monthly habit resolutions in 2015 piqued her interests in how habits are created and best kept.
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