{"podcast":{"title":"ABetterU: 52 Books A Year by Brad Young","slug":"abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515","podcast_index_feed_id":7127515,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/7094740/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young--7094740","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e2b8ac426b099e39622a0cff6d0c80f0.jpg","author":"PodCentral Publishing Inc","episode_count":211,"summary":"Welcome to ABetterU: 52 Books A Year by Brad Young, the podcast inspired by an extraordinary challenge undertaken in 2024. Brad Young wrote and published a remarkable 52 paperbacks and 52 ebooks, each focusing on crucial aspects of health, wealth, happiness, and skills training. In this podcast, Brad dives into the wealth of insights, strategies, and lessons gained from his prolific year of writing. Join us as he breaks down key takeaways from each book, offering you invaluable advice on how to enhance your personal well-being, financial acumen, and everyday skillsets. Whether you're striving for a healthier lifestyle, aiming to achieve financial success, or eager to learn new skills, this podcast is your ultimate resource for personal enrichment and self-improvement. Embark on this journey with Brad, and discover how you can apply the transformative principles from these 52 books to create a better you. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young--7094740/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:19:59.428919+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515"},"episode":{"title":"Breaking The Cycle: How To Quit Wasting Your Time: Building Healthy Habits","slug":"breaking-the-cycle-how-to-quit-wasting-your-time-building-healthy-habits","published_at":"2026-03-17T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515/breaking-the-cycle-how-to-quit-wasting-your-time-building-healthy-habits","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/breaking-the-cycle-how-to-quit-wasting-your-time-building-healthy-habits--72439298","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72439298/82ecfb86_e5bf_4875_8f60_dadcfe5e95ad.mp3","summary":"Routines are the invisible architecture of a productive life. They are the systems that make good behavior easy and automatic rather than effortful and willpower-dependent. And this distinction matters enormously, because willpower is a limited resource. Research consistently shows that willpower depletes throughout the day as you make more decisions. Every time you have to decide whether to work out, whether to eat well, whether to start your most important task, whether to go to bed on time — you are drawing from a limited account. Routines eliminate those decisions. They automate your best behaviors so that willpower is preserved for the moments that actually require it.Think about the most successful, productive people you know or have read about. Almost universally, they have strong routines — particularly morning routines. Not because they are naturally more disciplined than the rest of us. But because they have deliberately designed their environment and schedule so that their best behaviors happen almost automatically, without a daily battle of willpower. They are not choosing to exercise at six in the morning because they feel like it. They are exercising because it is simply what happens at six in the morning. The decision has already been made. The only choice is showing up. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young--7094740/support .","meta_description":"Routines are the invisible architecture of a productive life. They are the systems that make good behavior easy and automatic rather than effortful and wi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2859,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515/episodes/breaking-the-cycle-how-to-quit-wasting-your-time-building-healthy-habits/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abetteru-52-books-a-year-by-brad-young-7127515/breaking-the-cycle-how-to-quit-wasting-your-time-building-healthy-habits.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}