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How to Use Psychology and Neuroscience to Achieve a 95% Drop in Binge Eating with Harriet Morris

Harriet Morris is a eating coach with 25,000 YouTube views who empowers people to use psychology and neuroscience to achieve a 95% drop in binge eating without feeling deprived or bad about themselves. She has already used these strategies to make her own (previously all-consuming) compulsive eating and sugar addiction non-issues, and drop 3 dress sizes.

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Resources Mentioned:

  • Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
  • Audible – Get a FREE Audiobook & 30 day trial if you’re not currently a member!
  • iMovie – Harriet’s small business resource
  • The Obstacle Is the Way – Harriet’s Top Business Book
  • Harriet’s website
  • The Mastery Journal – Master Productivity, Discipline and Focus in 100 days!

3 Key Points:

  1. Do not live with regrets or be bound by “if only” statements.
  2. Effort-based goals are more accessible than being results-based.
  3. Follow your mini deadlines and respect your time limit for each task.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

(click the time stamp to jump directly to that point in the episode.)

  • [01:03] – Harriet had a compulsive eating problem for 3 decades
  • [01:21] – On Harriet’s 40th birthday, she realized that she needed to really change her thinking
  • [03:42] – The different cases of binge eating for Harriet
  • [05:08] – From studies, our mouths just want to be completely smothered
  • [06:05] – One BIG and Unique Value Bomb: “Will power is a big, fat myth”
  • [06:28] – Achieving goals happens when we know how to deal with our resistance
  • [08:05] – Binge eating is an ineffective, coping mechanism for dealing with our issues
  • [08:34] – What was your goal for The Freedom Journal and how did you crush it? “My goal was to get 5 clients for my new coaching program that I was setting up”
  • [08:56] – Everything was doing great for a month, but then Harriet’s self-sabotage began to set in
  • [09:26] – Harriet realized that she needed to apply that resistance she used to food to her businesses
  • [10:00] – Changing result-based goals to effort-based goals made things easier for Harriet
  • [10:39] – Harriet set up the OTED (one thing every day) Facebook group
  • [11:37] – Harriet almost reached her goal with The Freedom Journal
  • [11:53] – Harriet is now getting ready to start her Mastery Journal goal
  • [12:27] – Harriet found the women in OTED from The Freedom Journal Facebook group
  • [13:35] – How do you define Productivity? “Productivity is prioritizing a few tasks so that you can get more done”
  • [13:56] – Harriet struggled, at first, with executing her ideas
  • [15:31] – How do you define Discipline? “Discipline is what happens when you create mini deadlines that excite you”
  • [16:00] – Harriet struggles writing blog posts
  • [16:39] – How do you define Focus? “The ability is to set a time limit for each task and most importantly to respect that time limit”
  • [16:59] – The Pomodoro Technique in the The Mastery Journal
  • [17:07] – JLD visits the Facebook group as part of his morning routine
  • [18:10] – The Mastery Journal has a lot great videos, tips and testimonies
  • [18:33] – The Lightning Round
    • What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur? – “The idea that the entrepreneur was the superstar of the business”
    • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – “I won’t be the one to be bound by the sound of ‘if only…’”
    • What’s a personal habit that contributes to your success? – “To actively seek rejection by turning it into a game”
    • Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation – iMovie
    • If you could recommend one book to our listeners, what would it be and why? – The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday because it’s all about reforming your problem
  • [21:30] – Look at your problems as irritations or potential pills
  • [21:52] – Find Harriet on her website at Theshiftinside.com/fire

Killer Resources!

1) The Common Path to Uncommon Success: JLD’s 1st traditionally published book! Over 3000 interviews with the world’s most successful Entrepreneurs compiled into a 17-step roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment!

2) Free Podcast Course: Learn from JLD how to create and launch your podcast!

3) Podcasters’ Paradise: The #1 podcasting community in the world!

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