Ep 41: Building Fitness Habits for Self-Mastery and Productivity with Monica Ricci

Today we are digging into shifting your mindset to achieve self-mastery and live your best life through things like identity, habits, productivity, and of course as always on this show, how those tie back to your fitness and health.

My guest is Monica Ricci. Monica has been facilitating positive change for over 20 years. She founded Catalyst Organizing, LLC in 1998, working with individuals, business owners, and business teams to help clarify priorities, achieve goals, create organization, and improve productivity.

In the world of productivity, Monica has been an author, blogger, speaker, radio host, and frequent TV guest on many local morning shows as well as Fox & Friends, CNN.com, and HGTV.

Today, she uses her experience and talents to facilitate positive change and transformation through coaching, speaking, and social media.

Monica lives a nomadic life, coaching via Zoom while traveling the country. When she isn’t moving to a new city, she enjoys strength training, cycling, baseball, rock and roll, and high-quality butter.

You'll learn all about:

• Monica's personal story and how you got interested in coaching
• Why "Day Thirteen" was pivotal
• How someone develops a skill or habit over time to create positive outcomes (the Law of Accumulation)
• The science of habit building and making progress
• Micro-stepping to create new habits
• The Exercise Myth and the right approach for someone trying to lose fat
• How identity drives behaviors
• The courage to be an outlier
• What self-mastery looks like
• The identity-to-behavior transformation
• How you help people create significant shifts in mindset

Episode resources:

• Find Monica on Instagram -  @remakingmonica
• Find Monica on Twitter - @monicaricci
• Monica's website - monicaricci.net
• Watch the episode on video here

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