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The Motivator Issue 02 is coming this month, exclusively in Lift The Bar: magazine! Omar and Stevo do a deep dive into Organismic Integration Theory including reviews of 2 new studies with exclusive interviews with the study authors! You can join LTB for a free trial and a free issue or purchase the magazine for 9.99 + shipping

Habitry is officially partnering with Lift The Bar: Education and Support for Personal Trainers! Get ready for the biggest hands-on autonomy support program in the world. We have been working closely with Lift the Bar already (including joining their members last year for their first annual conference and kicking off their client habit programs at LTB HQ), and in 2017 we'll be stepping up our partnership.... The first thing that Lift the Bar members can look forward to is the next issue of Habitry’s motivation science journal The Motivator exclusively for Lift the Bar! Look out for that this summer. Second, we’ll be expanding our involvement with LTB’s trainer education program. And we’ll share the best of the motivation science education we refined in our Habitry Professionals membership. As part of fulfilling Habitry’s mission to help the most people help the most people, we've learned how much more impact we can have as part of a great, holistic education like Lift the Bar. We’re excited to join forces with LTB to reach their goal to positively impact one million training hours. Special note to our own Habitry Professionals members: starting now, you’ll have access to all the benefits of Lift the Bar membership. If you’re a Habitry Pro, check the member site for more details. And if you’re reading this and you’re not a coach, check out our new offering for everyone: Betterish. We’re spinning off Habitry’s habits for everyone efforts into its own thing. Betterish produces our new podcast, the bettercast, and we’ll be releasing even more stuff in 2017, drawing from what we’ve learned from talking to real people about change that matters to them.

On of the coolest things that came out of my conversation with Dr. Nadia Brown on bettercast #15 was the idea of telling people, before you ask them for anything, that they can say "no" and it won't hurt your feelings. She says this especially effective when talking to women, who are socialized to be agreeable. It builds trust (and is just the decent thing to do). More profound, Dr. Nadia says this is doubly true in *sales conversations.* WTF, right?! But it makes perfect sen...se. Here's why: **science section** We know from the meta-analysis Carpenter (2012) that reminding people at the point of purchase that they are free to refuse requests actually results in higher concordance to request. The underlying mechanism here is probably supporting the person's autonomy results in a momentary increase in self-determined motivation. But beyond that, it's just a decent thing to do. People are autonomous humans, and reminding of them that can't hurt and clearly might help everyone involved. See more