Happy Habit Podcast

Humans are like laptops, when we take on too many tasks, we have to reset ourselves. 

The key ways to enhances ones consistency

We preoccupy ourselves with other peoples' performances when we should be controlling the controllables in our hands. 

How to live a positive life. 

4 everyday life lessons we can learn from one of the greatest philosophers in history. 

I've read over 70 self help books in the last couple of years in this episode I list the best 7 

I have read alot of the best-known self-help books, and in this episode I distill what lessons I have found to be common to many of those books. 

I examine some of the themes of this very well known and deeply moving book. 

Yes we are social creatures and crave belonging to our tribe, but not at any cost to our values and principles. 

Human, person to person connection in the real world is irreplaceable. Yes we attempt to connect online but its a poor replacement. I have linked the video of the girl playing the music I mentioned below, I can't play the music in the episode for copyright infringement reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFetvsemGOY

Chronic stress today is insidious and must be countered consciously if we are going to fight its negative mental and physical effects on us. 

What is the effect of self sabotage on our progress and why do we do it ? 

I look at some of the themes of Dr Rangan Chattergee's new book Happy Mind Happy Life

In this episode we talk about how to find motivation and measures we can take to maintain it when needed. 

In 2019, 21 year old Josh Reid cycled from China to England alone. It was a distance of 15,000 km and took him through 19 countries. Along the way, he had to contend with sleeping rough on the side of the road and fending off wolves to a variety of weather conditions. He captured his amazing journey on video which I have linked below. This is his story.  https://youtu.be/Mmdxs_0yYwc

Resilence is crucial if we are to going to achieve even the most minor of life goals. In this episode, I give several examples of individuals in whom we can see resilience at play and which has allowed the respective individuals to achieve incredible goals. 

I was delighted to talk with The Bodycoach himself Joe Wicks on his career successes and how he overcame challenges and periods when he felt overwhelmed. We discuss his early days, his use of social media, developing boundaries and his recent push into the mental health space.  You can check out all Joe's books, his app and his social media streams via his website : https://www.thebodycoach.com/

In this episode I talk to sleep scientist Dr Michelle Olaithe about sleep.  How much sleep do we need?  Why is Sleep so important ?  Do you have insomnia ? The downsides to poor sleep.  www.mythereo.com Dr Michelle's Ted Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWB0zv_MNA Dr Michelle's research papers : https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/michelle-olaithe

Gin Stephens is an authority on intermittent fasting having lost 80 lbs and lived an intermittent fasting lifestyle for 8 years. She has an online community of thousands and is the author of New York Times best sellers including, Fast feast repeat, Delay don't deny and Clean(ish). Gin joined me to talk to me about what intermittent fasting is and what its benefits are. 

Our time is short, be incredibly precious about guarding your time. Be selective about how you spend it. In this episode to illustrate my point I talk about Aza Raskin and his invention that has definitely wasted your time and you don't even know it. 

Dr Joshua Wolrich is adamantly against any notion that we should be using food as medicine, he's also firmly against the idea that anyone should be stigmatised because of their weight, he believes we can be healthy at any weight. In this book he finds flaws in many of the widely accepted arguments espoused by science regarding carbohydrate intake, a subject that is personal to him given his own hi...

We have to be like Neil Armstrong and take a leap of faith to get past inertia and start anything. 

In this episode, we discuss the notion of toxic positivity, online today.

Blaming others or even yourself is a toxic habit, that leads us nowhere. In this episode we discuss why blaming is an act of powerlessness that leaves us a victim. 

Fiona Harrold wrote a terrific little book on the importance of self-belief in every aspect of our lives and how to acquire it. In this episode we delve into some of the advice she gives.