003 | What Keeps Getting Your Attention (And Why You Can’t Stop Doing the Thing You Don’t Want to Do)

Becoming Aligned · Oct 22, 2026 · 14m

In this episode of Becoming Aligned, we’re talking about why you keep doing something you already decided you wanted to stop.

We often call it a discipline problem. But what if there’s something happening before the behavior even begins?

We’ll look at how cues, attention, reinforcement, and repetition shape our habits—and why what keeps getting your attention can keep a pattern alive.

You’ll learn how to catch the pattern one step earlier, ask a better question, and create a little more space between the urge and the action.

Because automatic doesn’t mean inevitable.

And what repeatedly gets…