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Are you one of those guys who tries to make a change but find yourself right back where you started a few weeks later?

Is it possible to arrange your life so that making a positive change is more automatic than struggle?

And why are there little bees or flies painted inside the urinal?

This week we’ll explore how you can create positive habits that stick and why hope alone is the raw material of losers. We’re talking with Michael Brooks and Josh Summers — authors of “The Buddha’s Playbook.”

In this episode:

• Breaking Bad Habits
• Making Good Habits Stick
• Why New Year’s resolutions are like Vegas marriages
• Hope is for losers (according to Fernando Flores)
• What those little bees in the urinal have to do with your success
• How to set up your practice to ensure your success
• Choice Architecture
• Why losing is more painful than gaining is joyful
• Why perfectionism doesn’t work
• “Muscle Confusion” and your life

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If money can’t buy happiness then where do we find it? The answer is in life’s simple pleasures.

It sounds like a cliche, but the truth is that we’ve trained ourselves to multitask and split our attention across many different arenas. The cost? We don’t take the time to truly experience and enjoy our day and it’s contents.

We’re so focused on finding relief in the future that we’re forgetting about the moment we’re living in — now.

Our culture and its expanding arena of attention-grabbers like Facebook and Twitter make it more challenging to just have a glass of wine or a simple meal. For instance, we’re finding it increasingly necessary to eat AND read email AND watch TV.

According to “Yeah Dave” Romanelli, a former PR agent for Shaquille O’Neill we can create a short checklist of things to focus on throughout the day — Humor, Something Delicious and the Beauty all around us. This will ultimately have a big, positive impact.

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