If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- Have you ever wondered why your environment often has more power over your actions than your own willpower?
- Are you curious about the hidden daily 'triggers' that are secretly sabotaging your progress toward your biggest goals?
- What’s the secret to finally making those positive life changes stick, even when your initial motivation starts to fade?
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Key Takeaways from Triggers
- Understand how everyday triggers—from your internal beliefs to your external environment—unconsciously reshape your thoughts and prevent positive behavioral changes.
- Discover why internal 'belief triggers' trick you into resisting self-improvement by generating false excuses and wildly inaccurate self-assessments.
- Recognize how powerful environmental factors can unconsciously dictate your actions, often causing you to behave poorly or out of character without realizing it.
- Learn how to avoid acting on bad impulses by identifying your triggers and creating a crucial moment of awareness between a stimulus and your reaction.
- Master the ability to lead your own behavioral change by forecasting hostile environments and proactively adjusting your approach before negative triggers take hold.
Learning Tools
Reinforce what you learned from Triggers
Mind Map
Triggers
Understanding Triggers
Definition
Characteristics
Sources of Triggers
Belief Triggers (Internal)
Environmental Triggers (External)
Strategies for Mastery
Self-Feedback
Adjusting to Environment
Combating Ego Depletion
Tools for Accountability
Active Questions
Scorekeeping
The Circle of Engagement
The Six Daily Questions
The Engagement Cycle
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 7
According to the book, what is the fundamental definition of a 'trigger'?
Triggers — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Triggers often stop us from making changes, and we don’t even notice.
Chapter 3: Triggers can arise from our own beliefs, but usually they’re still part of our environment.
Chapter 4: Prevent impulsive actions by regularly giving yourself feedback.
Chapter 5: Guide your change effectively by understanding and adapting to your environment.
Chapter 6: Own your change using active questions and scorekeeping.
Chapter 7: Structure and routine help us avoid fatigue.
Chapter 8: Remain engaged to create change benefiting you and the people around you.
Triggers Summary & Overview
Triggers (2015) exposes the things in your life that you didn’t know were affecting you – and what you can do to stop these things from preventing you making positive change. Backed up with insightful research and filled with the experiences of the author and his clients, these blinks will help you eliminate unwanted behaviors and put you on the path to achieving your personal goals.
Who Should Listen to Triggers?
- Those who want to make their new health regimes last
- Professionals looking to up their motivation game
- Anyone interested in salvaging those forgotten New Year’s resolutions
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