A few months ago I started a trial subscription to Audible.com and downloaded Atomic Habits by James Clear. I had started reading a hard copy of this book some months before, but never really made much progress on it, as was the case with many of the books I had picked up over the past few years. I would get …
I few months back I started reading The ONE Thing. It’s a great book that, in a nutshell, aims to help you find what one thing you can do in a given context (at work, in your marriage, or even as big as in your life as a whole) to get better results. I’m still only about a third of …
No one likes to be wrong. Sometimes (often times?) even when we know we’re wrong, we won’t admit it, instead we get defensive and try to come up with some sort of story about how we’re correct. I’ve learned that in most cases this strategy doesn’t work. I mean, when you’re wrong, and you know you’re wrong, just admit it. …
In the quest to build better habits, one often overlooked ides is repetition. Many people focus on how long it will take to build a good habit. Will I need seven days? Two weeks? 21.5 days? Rather than worrying about what workout you should do, just do something. Rather than worrying about what you should write about, just write something …
Another thought today in the vein of making better habits. Since beginning to read Atomic Habits I’ve already started to implement some of the tactics James Clear discusses in the book. I also listened to James’ conversation with Rich Roll about habits, and I’ve morphed a few if his ideas into a self-improvement technique that even I can master. One …
Iv’e been reading James Clear’s Atomic Habits lately, and finding a load of useful info in it. Today’s takeaway: the two minute rule. To help your new, desired habit to stick, start out by just doing two minutes of it. Don’t worry about running for 30 minutes, or doing and hour of work. Just get in the habit of doing …