Here are the list of current blog posts (as of March 23 2021) all about habits. This will continue to be updated for as long as I continue to write blog posts on habits 🙂
Here are a list of the top recommended books about habits that the blog posts were inspired by:
In this blog post, you’ll see a short summary of each blog post just to give you enough content for you to decide whether you’d like to read the whole thing!
Here’s Why Habit Tracking Isn’t the Best System to Use
Read this if:
- You want to begin a new habit and actually stick with it long-term.
- You’re frustrated with how it’s so hard to stick with new habits.
- You’re considering doing habit tracking to attempt to stick with your habits – BUT in this particular blog post, you’ll find out why habit tracking is not the best system to use.
You’ll learn:
- The three reasons why habit tracking actually sucks, despite many people recommending using habit tracking to help stick with your habits.
- The three other alternative techniques that you can use to stick with your habits, that will actually be more effective for you.
My favourite line: If your goals are really important to you… stick with the habits!
How to Use Self-Talk to Build and/or Break Your Habits
Read this if:
- You can’t seem to stick with the habits that you want to build, or have a hard time trying to break your habits.
You’ll learn:
- How self-talk is actually a big contributor to our habits.
- How positive self-talk actually plays a role in helping us stick with our habits, even the habits that seem impossible to build for our ability.
- How negative self-talk actually contributes to our bad habits, and how having negative self-talk is actually not helping us at all with breaking them.
- How to change your self-talk in order to change your habits.
Favourite line – Think of changing your habits as a GPS system. Your end goal is your destination, and in order to get to your destination, you need specific directions. It’s the same with reaching our goals. In order to get to your desired results, you need specific directions on not only your habits, but also your self-talk.
Look into the Future – Turning Instant Gratification Around
Read this if:
- You always feel like you want something and just want it immediately.
- You feel like instant gratification is taking over your life. It’s stopping you from keeping up with your good habits, and it’s making you have a hard time breaking your bad habits.
- You want to actually stick with your habits (whether you’re building them or breaking them) and have the patience to wait to accomplish your goals.
You’ll learn:
- How to turn instant gratification around. Let it work for you rather than against you.
- How to not let instant gratification get in the way of breaking your bad habits
- How to not let instant gratification get in the way of building your new habits.
Favourite line: We can be conscious of our habits to see whether it’s going to bring us up or bring us down in the long-term.
4 Books for Building Better Habits and Breaking Bad Ones
Read this if:
- If you want book recommendations on habits.
- You want to know how other books approach habits.
- If you want to know different approaches to building and breaking habits.
You’ll Learn:
You’ll learn each book’s:
- Approach to Habits – how each book had approached the idea of habits.
- How to Break Habits – the book’s method on how to break habits
- How to Build Habits – the book’s method on how to build habits
- Overall Rate on how helpful it was – I didn’t give it a number score, it was either a high rate or a good rate. Spoiler alert, there’s no “bad” rate, because if it was, it was not included on this list.
Favourite line: Simply just outlining the steps towards building or breaking habits, without specifically mentioning any context behind it all, is like trying to sell someone something without actually explaining what the product does and why they should buy it.
New Year, New Why? WHYpower Over Willpower
Read this if:
- Willpower has always failed you when it comes to accomplishing your goals.
- You’re always finding yourself letting go of your new year’s resolutions.
- You’re always finding yourself not being able to stick with your habits (whether building or breaking them).
You’ll learn:
- Why you can’t just rely on willpower.
- Why you should rely on WHYpower instead, and why it’s important to have that.
- A new way to approach your New Year’s Resolutions.
Favourite line: Find your WHY by knowing your core values, and see how much that motivates you to keep on going.
New Year, New (New Year’s Resolution) Systems
Read this if:
- You can’t seem to stick with the New Year’s resolutions that you set.
- You want to know why you can’t stick with your New Year’s resolutions.
- You want to actually know how to stick with your New Year’s resolutions.
You’ll learn:
- The four problems to why you can’t seem to be sticking with your New Year’s resolutions.
- The solutions to the four problems in sticking with New Year’s resolutions.
- Why your New Year’s resolutions need to be specific and you need to have a motivating why so that you can stick with the habits that are required.
Favourite quote: Just simply saying that you have a new year’s resolution is going to decrease your likelihood of actually achieving them.
Something to Think About First When Starting a New Habit
Read this is:
- You’re wondering why it’s always so hard to start a good habit, but so easy to end up having a bad one.
- You want to actually know how to start a habit in a way that you’ll stick with them.
- You have a goal that you want to accomplish that require habits to be acquired.
You’ll learn:
- How to build habits that will allow you to accomplish your desired outcomes.
- How to properly approach the building of a new habit.
- How to build your systems of habits so that you’re closer to achieving your goals.
System Over Goals – Why It’s Better to Focus on Systems
Read this if:
- You want to accomplish your goals, but finding it hard to do so.
- You want to know why some people succeed in accomplishing their goals while others don’t.
- You want a step-by-step guide in accomplishing your desired goals.
You’ll learn:
- That you shouldn’t just rely on goals.
- Why you should focus on your systems rather than your goals.
- How systems are going to be a life changer for you in accomplishing your goals.
Favourite Quote: Winners and losers have the same goal, but they differentiate based on their systems.
The Compound Effect – A Life Changing Eyeopener
Read this:
- You want the ultimate motivation and trick to always doing your habits and always getting better in your life.
- How to actually accomplish what you desire.
- You want your habits to actually stick.
You’ll learn:
- About the Compound Effect, and how life changing it is to your life and your habits.
- How to make the Compound Effect work for you rather than against you.
- How small changes and actions that seem insignificant at the time, eventually accumulates to bigger and noticeable differences.
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