Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast with Martin Grunburg

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow." ~Chinese Proverb   On this Frequently Asked Friday, we tackle the question: How can I kill my negative emotions? Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. There's no winning with emotions such as hate, anger, jealousy, and fear. (Although as we learned in Season 3's episode, The Va...

"When you quiet the mind and think about developing a product, you realize there has to be a big idea behind the niche space you're targeting.” ~Mark Schmid Habits2Goals is proud to present a conversation with inventor, entrepreneur, and leader Mark Schmid, aka "Schmiddy." With 32 years of product design and brand launch experience, Mark has created multiple industry-leading companies in the actio...

"No tomorrow. No today. No yesterday." ~Sheng-ts "Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” ~Zen Proverb Today's Mind Bullet Monday takes us back...to the future. This subject matter is pulled directly from The Habit Factor®. Martin reads from the Epilogue sharing the story about the time his daughter, Eva (7), asked her mom, "When is the fut...

"When the student is ready, the master appears." ~Buddha "Action is the real measure of intelligence.” ~Napoleon Hill On this Frequently Asked Friday, we tackle the question: What's the Best Way to Learn ? This topic harkens back to Season 3's Learning Mastery , which explored the idea that our minds are more ripe at certain times, so continually studying a subject will yield new insights.  Today...

"Getting through failures and coming out the other side makes you that much more confident — and believable to others.”   ~Drew Boyles Habits2Goals is proud to welcome Drew Boyles, a lifetime entrepreneur, avid world traveler, and passionate surfer—who just happens to be the mayor of El Segundo, California. Drew’s entrepreneurial adventures have included consolidating 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchises th...

"The key to a healthy 'no' is to remember the 'yes' that the 'no' is making space for.” Alan Cohen Today's Mind Bullet, Yes and No , is inspired by online "wisdom" that says the key to success is learning to say no . . . or yes. Billionaire Warren Buffet is quoted as saying that the key to his success is saying no,  because saying no creates focus and helps you set priorities. Richard Branson, on...

"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”~Stephen Hawking On this Frequently Asked Friday, we tackle the question: What expectations should I set for myself? The topic of expectations builds on a couple of previous episodes. In season four, we addressed the idea of standards , and how raising your own standards—demanding more of yourself—can dram...

"As a businessman and a human, I have every opportunity to start fresh, take advantage of new opportunities, and to attack life with renewed vigor.”  ~ Kevin Daum Habits2Goals is delighted to welcome media strategist, serial entrepreneur, theater arts champion, and bestselling author Kevin Daum.  Kevin’s marketing approach as an Inc. 500 entrepreneur delivered more than $1 billion in sales. As a s...

"Shaping your own personal culture means identifying your values and crafting an environment that is aligned to those values." This Monday brings a massive mind bullet that brings up a new topic for Habits2Goals: culture . This mind bullet was inspired by a Monday Night Football broadcast where the New England Patriots destroyed the New York Jets. The game was so boring the announcers had to fill...

"Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad.” ~Miles Kington On this Frequently Asked Friday, we tackle the age-old question: What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Earlier this season we tackled wisdom as a standalone topic . This time, though, a LinkedIn post inspires Martin to revisit the question and review some of the common myths and misu...

"If Artificial Intelligence (AI) is goal-directed behavior, then setting meaningful and worthwhile goals is a true sign of real intelligence." Henry J. Evans joins Habits2Goals to pick up where last week's episode, Goal-Setting 101 , left off, continuing our discussion of the massive topic of goal-setting .  Last week we discussed the what, why, and how of goal-setting, among other things learning...

"If everything is energy—and it is—what do you think happens when you flap your gums? "  Today's Mind Bullet is a bit brutal but necessary: Shut Your Freaking Mouth! In other words, silence .  We talked about this idea in a blog post called " Shut Your Pie Hole ," discussing oversharing as a personal development hurdle, and it is eloquently explained in this  TED Talk : Derek Sivers, Keep Your Goa...

"Where there is hope in the future, there is happiness in the present.” On this Frequently Asked Friday, we tackle the question: Where can I find hope? In our recent How Can I Stay Motivated? episode, we discussed failure as a stepping stone to success, not the opposite of success. In fact, the opposite of success might be hopelessness , because, without hope, there's no opportunity to create our...

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”  ~Earl Nightingale Today's episode brings back legendary former co-host Henry J. Evans—a dynamic marketing expert, best-selling author, speaker, and consultant—for an important introduction to goal-setting. Habits2Goals exists to help listeners learn to set and achieve goals, supported by habits, and live life to their full potent...

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself . " Maya Angelou Today's Mind Bullet once again digs into the root of a word to find more understanding. This time, we look at the word  belonging .   A Facebook post is the genesis of this episode. A friend shared a post on a military veteran's experience of belonging and how finding that sense of belonging post-service was...

"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.” ~Buddha On this Frequently Asked Friday we tackle the massive idea of happiness once again. In season 4 we addressed the topic " How Can I Be Happy ?" toward people fighting through depression and sadness. Today, however, we explore the question, "What Are the Keys to Happiness?" A paradigm-shifting concept is simply to choose happiness . The i...

"Put yourself in the shoes of others and make it part of your core values; it's the basis of customer-centered ideology.”  ~Paul Reynolds This week's Habits2Goals interview spotlights a phenomenal CEO and entrepreneur, Paul Reynolds, whose business insights come fast and furious. Paul is a lifelong entrepreneur and the CEO of EasiHair Pro, a leader in the hair extension industry that utilizes a re...

"Being 'lost' isn't as much about not knowing where you are as much as it is about knowing where you want to go. "  Today's Mind Bullet stems from a reader's feedback, appreciating the way we dig into the etymology of a word to extract its true meaning and look at it in a new light. We did this with our Quest episode, and today we put the spotlight on the word lost . First, why do we do this? A Ze...

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas Edison Today's Frequently Asked Friday is deceptively straightforward: How can you stay motivated after repeated failures? First, let's get a "right perspective" on failure. Is failure the opposite of success? Absolutely not! Anyone who has ever succeeded has failed along the way. Thi...

"I learned early on that I couldn’t control what happened to me, but I could control what I did about it.”  ~Shay Eskew Habits2Goals is proud to present a powerful interview with best-selling author, motivational speaker, Ironman, and fellow Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim adventurer Shay Eskew.  Shay's story is inspiring and motivating, showing that self-made success is possible despite overwhelming obstacles....

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." ~Malcolm Gladwell Today's Mind Bullet revolves around a famous success tenet that, when you look deeper, simply reflects the magic of The Habit Factor: The 10,000-hour rule .  The 10,000-hour rule was made famous in Malcolm Gladwell's book  Outliers , which discusses the outlier-type variables that influ...

"Good habits happen when planned; bad habits happen on their own." ~Grunburg This Frequently Asked Friday throws it back to a core concept: How long does it take to develop a good habit? (For more on this topic, check out Season 4's What Is Habitstrength?  and What's the Best Way to Build a Good Habit? , and Season 2's How Long Does it Really Take to Build a Good Habit ?) Building a good habit DOE...

" What makes us weird also makes us wonderful. What makes us weak also makes us strong. " ~David Rendall Habits2Goals is proud to welcome a true "freak," professional speaker, bestselling author, Ph. D., and fellow Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim adventurer David Rendall.  Growing up, David was told he’d never be successful because he didn’t fit the mold— he couldn’t sit still, he talked too much, and he didn’t...

"Well I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation, it's a quest. It's a quest for fun, I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun, we're all gonna have so much ****ing fun..." Clark Griswold This Mind Bullet, Quest , was inspired by two things: a listener, Micheal K., who wrote in suggesting an episode about questions , and Chevy Chase's iconic Clark Griswold character from the Vacatio...

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.” ~Desiderius Erasmus On the first Frequently Asked Friday of Habits2Goals Season 6, we tackle a back-to-basics topic first visited in Season 1 : How to kill a bad habit. The formula is simple: To kill a bad habit, use the three "ments": environment , replacement , and experiment .  Say you need to kill the bad habit of drinking bee...