Category: habits
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v.0.1 Habits -> Rituals
– Make it your identity – Take the smallest next step – Make good habits easy – Create the environment for good habits easy and bad habits hard – Find a partner – Do it every single day
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Book: Atomic Habits
I loved this book and will keep and re-read again in a year. Each chapter is about 10 pages, which fits very nicely with my “read 10 pages of a book” habit in the morning. It gives a little bit of science with each advice given on how to build long lasting good habits and…
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Cost of good habits are in the present, cost of bad habits are in the future.
James Clear’s book Atomic Habits – During the early phases of forming a good habit (going to the gym, eating healthier, saving for retirement) there is no immediate reward. However with bad habits (eating ice cream, watching Netlifx, scrolling through Instagram), we get immediate reward. Unfortunately humans are flawed, we tend to avoid things that…
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Your money and time shows what you care about
We can talk about what we value but until we put our time and our money as wagers, talk is cheap. In the book Atomic Habits, the author James Clear suggest that repetition is the key to forming habits. Doing 5 minutes of reading every day, is way better than spending 6 hours reading a…
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Forming habits to meditate, stretch, and the next step
By accident I stumbled upon a method to start changing behaviors. 2018 In 2018 I wanted to not buy anything that was not perishable. I wanted to learn to pratice self control. As the year passed, I wrote down as few rules as I realized the gap between a very strict rule and what else…