Are Your Habits Serving You or Not? (Kai Alday)
- Episode #4
Episode summary: Some habits are serving and some habits are not serving. Or as we usually say — they are good or bad habits. Typically, a habit is the thing that either helps us to reach a goal or prevents us from reaching that goal. You can call them “invisible creatures,” because sometimes you don’t even know they’re there. You just can’t figure out why you haven’t reached your goal, or can’t change.
In this jam-packed episode, Melinda Cohan, our host and senior coach, has a fascinating conversation with Kai Alday, the founder of Success Alday, a company focusing on creating mindset and habit success. Melinda and Kai geek out on the neuroscience of habits and discuss several practical steps that you can immediately apply to break any non serving habit and create a new one that serves.
In this episode we discuss:
- How habits serve us but also how they can be “invisible creatures.”
- Why it’s so hard to change habits, and how long it takes to change them.
- Just how long does it take to change a habit? 21 days? 67?
- The essential three levels to clarify in order to create change.
- What tools and systems help your client change a habit?
- What are temptation bundling and friction reduction?
- How do pretty rocks help you change a habit?
“Are your actions actually voting for the person that you want to be? Or are they voting for how life already is?”
Kai Alday
Guest bio: Kai Alday is a self-proclaimed momentum junkie, AKA a coach obsessed with creating traction for service-based businesses. She has a not-so-secret love affair with brain science and loves using it to create mindset and habit success for her clients. Kai’s specialties are customer experience design, program creation, and science-based goal setting.
Kai founded Success Alday to help small businesses ditch the complicated strategies and embrace a business that’s simple to run, fun to build and makes success inevitable. For Kai, the idea that you need to hustle until you die is outdated and only beneficial to the power suits. Instead, she focuses on building a thriving business with the purpose of enjoying your life and creating an impact while you do it. Fair warning: Kai isn’t your grandpa’s business coach. There’s a healthy dose of laughter, real talk, and profanity involved.
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Credits:
- Guest – Kai Alday
- Host – Melinda Cohan
- Producer – Cynthia Lamb
- Executive producer – Danny Iny
- Writer – Michi Lantz, Melinda Cohan, and Cynthia Lamb
- Assembled by – Geoff Govertsen
- Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
- Audio Post Production by Post Office Sound
- Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
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