Publisher's Synopsis
Do you want to learn the power of habits to get better results in your life, in a few minutes a day?
There are the good habits like flossing every day after brushing, calling our mother every other day, and drinking green tea instead of coffee. And there are the bad habits like smoking every now and then, binge TV watching all weekend without going for a walk outside, or preferring not to wash our clothes until there is nothing left to wear.
Habits are a subtle way of life. We never really pay attention to these quirks and habits that we unknowingly begin during our childhood or very early in our life. It is often when someone points out some oddities that we possess that we finally come face to face with our habits.
We accept our habits as a natural part of ourselves, seldom stopping to think whether they have the power to change or influence our lives. But habits - mini habits - do have the power to greatly manipulate our daily lives as well as our life in general, even if we don't actually realize it.
Most of the habits that we observe in ourselves when we are adults are actually formed while we are quite young. It is instructions like 'brush your teeth every night before bed', 'don't sit too close to the TV' and 'eat plenty of vegetables' that lead to present habits that we carry on in our lives.
These habits, a.k.a. these instructions, start off simple; it is much later that we add to them, or enhance them to fit ourselves. 'brush before bedtime' is extended with 'flossing' and 'cleaning'; 'keep your distance from the TV' is a big influence when we are placing the couch in the living room; and 'eat more vegetables' encourages us to order a vegetarian pizza every now and then.
This book covers the following topics:
- Why a book about habits and how it can be useful?
- Setting the compass of our life
- Set the right mindset
- The Power of habits
- How habits are born, the cognitive and physiological process behind habit's formation
...And much more!
The idea of 'habit stacking' is a similar notion when it comes to personal practices and habits.
You cannot just wake up in the morning one day, realize that you have been living your life all wrong and decide to make things work. Human beings don't work that way.
This kind of life transformation is only possible in movies and books, where the main character takes control of their life in a single moment, after a devastating setback and never flounders again. Ordinary people are a little more complex.
