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Mar 2019
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Ep 5: Why Your Bad Habits Are So Hard To...

Jim Fortin
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Start Your Transformation Now In today’s episode, you’ll learn why it has been so hard to break your bad habits. The reason why is that people try to use willpower to break bad habits and willpower is a conscious process and habits come from the reptilian brain. When you got up this morning you didn’t say “ok I’m going to get out of bed then go to the bathr ... Show More
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