Clip: Robbie Siegel discusses habits and routines “The Power of Full Engagement” by Tony Schwartz

Clip from Episode 18 featuring Top Medical Device Sales Consultant – Robbie Siegel of Medline:

Back to what I’m talking about is the things that are bogging you down or the things that are eating up your time. In this book it focused on the things that are kind of draining your energy. What it eventually got to. Once you’ve identified those things and the way you want to live, and it broke it down into four categories. It was physical, mental, spiritual. There was a fourth one. What it talked about is once you’ve decided look this is what you want and this is what you want out of life, and those sorts of things. What it got to was what they called rituals and habits. It said habits are things that we do a on a day to day basis that are just habits. Whether we realize it or not they were formed by rituals. Most of the time our habits are formed by rituals that we didn’t decide on. Our kids gotta be at school at a certain time or we eat dinner or my wife gets off work at a certain time. So we develop these kind of habits based around unintended rituals. What this book explained was look, if you want to change that and you want to have a habit in your life. Then be very specific with your rituals. Create the rituals. Write those rituals into your daily routine, because if you do that and force yourself to do it over a long long period of time then it will become a habit. So knowing that I wasn’t working out enough and those sorts of things. Then I…