Breaking Habits That Cost Too Much - Masterclass VIP Pass

Learn to notice the habits that are quietly costing you—and the people around you—too much.

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The habits that cost us the most are usually the ones we can’t see.

If you lead, pastor, parent, or care for others, you probably carry more than anyone realizes. Maybe it’s the way you talk to yourself when no one else is listening. Maybe it’s saying yes to something you know you shouldn’t, or letting someone get away with behavior that wears everyone down. Or maybe it’s a habit the people around you have been paying for a long time, and you haven’t noticed.

These habits are rarely a matter of willpower. They’re automated responses—patterns we’ve been running on autopilot for months or years. And by the time we finally notice them, we’re often too depleted to deal with them. That’s why so many of us just let them continue.

The VIP Pass gives you the full masterclass — recorded live, so you can press play whenever you’re ready to take an honest look — along with the Implementation PDF that Steve teaches from.

Steve Cuss works through the PDF from beginning to end, so you can follow along page by page, fill in the blanks, and rate each habit as he goes, just as the VIP participants did live.

He walks through three types of habits: the ones that cost you, the ones that cost you and your people, and the ones that cost your people but not you. That last kind can be the hardest to see—and the most costly. Along the way, he’s honest about his own: believing every sermon had to be the best one you’d ever heard, rushing in to rescue anyone with a need, and avoiding the hard conversations a leader needs to have.

Breaking any of these habits takes three steps: notice, name, and diffuse. This masterclass focuses on the first one. You’ll learn to notice what’s really going on with a posture of curiosity and kindness—toward yourself, and toward the people who are driving you a bit crazy.

Steve also shares four skills you can bring to any habit: naming the invisible dynamics that drive you, catching your automated responses and choosing a deliberate one even 10–20% of the time, watching for the early signs that a pattern is starting, and setting aside a few minutes each week just to notice.

You won’t walk away with a quick fix. You’ll walk away able to see what’s been costing you, how much longer you—and your people—can keep paying, and one next step you can actually take.

Your VIP Pass includes:

• The masterclass recording — The full session with Steve, including the live Q&A at the end.
• The Implementation PDF — The guide Steve teaches from, so you can follow along and keep working on your habit afterward.

Inside the Implementation PDF:

• The Three Types of Habits — Guided prompts to name a habit in each category, how you and your people are paying for it, and how much longer everyone can keep paying.
• Notice, Name, Diffuse — The path to breaking these habits, plus a quick check of your emotional resilience before you take one on.
• Four Skills to Approach Any Habit — A one-page reference to come back to whenever an old pattern starts up again.
• Gut Check Questions — A few honest questions to help you decide where to begin, and space to write down your next step.

The masterclass is yours to return to whenever you need it.

Who this is for

• Leaders, pastors, caregivers, and parents who carry more than God has asked them to carry
• Anyone who doesn’t just read a room, but absorbs it—or worries about what they can’t control
• People stuck in a relational pattern that’s driving them, or the people around them, a bit crazy
• Anyone who has tried to break a habit before and found themselves right back in it a few weeks later