The Small Habits that Helped Jeremy Nagel Create Powerful Routines

Unshakable Habits

Episode Summary

In our latest episode, we're joined by Jeremy Nagel, founder of Focus Bear. He shares his journey from email addiction to cultivating healthy habits and how small daily actions can lead to significant changes. Jeremy's story is a powerful example of the healing power of routine. He stresses the need for routines to eliminate decision fatigue and to maintain consistency in our health and fitness journey. His approach to fitness emphasizes the importance of varying exercises and movements to avoid burnout and maintain interest. Our conversation underlined the power of small habits in making significant changes. It offered practical tips and nuggets of wisdom to reevaluate our daily routines and underscored the importance of developing healthy boundaries with our digital devices. Most importantly, it served as a reminder that our journey to wellness doesn't have to involve giant leaps but can be achieved with tiny, consistent steps.

Key Topics

[0:00] Intro

[1:52] Tiny habits approach

[7:22] Good stressors and bad stressors

[8:56] Compounding effect

[10:48] Routine triggers

[11:31] Conditional reward aspect

[15:26] How does the Focus Bear App help you focus?

[20:22] What's the Science behind the Focus Bear App?

[24:20] The gap between stimulus and response

[29:41] ADHD, autism, and Focus Bear App

[30:28] Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST)

[32:45] Decision fatigue

[35:11] Discipline being freedom

[39:59] Movement, exercise, and training

[41:46] Figure out what works for you

[43:03] Focus not on the goal but instead on the behavior

[47:20] Visualizing your target will get you more focused

[51:09] Discount code

[52:27] Outro

Quotes We Loved

• “... I trusted the process around it, and I liked what he was saying that you start with something in view of setting up your body and your mind to be able to do it every day.” - Jeremy Nagel
• “So for me, it was a combination of noticing that there were those stresses in my life but also being able to build up the courage just to carve out a little bit of time for myself and knowing that I could handle the stresses better. And I had to.” - Jeremy Nagel
• "So that speaks to becoming part of my identity that, rather than me just thinking sometimes I run occasionally, it's, I am a runner, and that makes me feel good, and I wouldn't feel congruent if I didn't go for a run.” - Jeremy Nagel

Guest Bio

Jeremy is a neurodiverse software developer turned startup founder who is slightly obsessed with habits. He likes to start each day with a 3-hour morning routine and sometimes surprises colleagues by busting out a set of pushups during meetings to keep the energy high.

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Website: https://www.focusbear.io/

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