The Habit Handbook: Control Habits, Command Your Life

By Jack Morris

Your life today is basically the sum of your habits.

How in or out of shape are you? A result of your habits. How happy or unhappy are you? A result of your habits. How wealthy or poor are you? A result of your habits. What you repeatedly do (i.e. what you spend time thinking about and doing each day) ultimately forms the person you are, the things you believe, and the personality that you portray. But what if you want to improve? What if you want to form new habits? How would you go about this? Turns out, there's a helpful framework that can make it easier to stick to new habits so that you can improve your health, wealth, and life in general. This book is a great way to start your journey toward enriching your life through the power of effective habit creation. This book will provide you with the confidence that you need in order to take on any current or future challenges in your life.

What will you learn in The Habit Handbook?

• How Habits Work
• The Most Efficient Method For Habit Formation
• Planning To Ensure Success
• The Importance Of A Morning Routine
• Reinforcing New Habits
• 7 Habits To Live By
• Much, Much More!

The Habit Handbook is a straight to the point, 'no fluff', guide on instilling the habits you need to change your life.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Farrington
• Release date: Aug 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386731900

Book preview

Introduction

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

~ Aristotle.

Thank you for purchasing The Habit Handbook.

Your life today is basically the sum of your habits.

How in or out of shape are you? A result of your habits.

How happy or unhappy are you? A result of your habits.

How wealthy or poor are you? A result of your habits.

What you repeatedly do (i.e. what you spend time thinking about and doing each day) ultimately forms the person you are, the things you believe, and the personality that you portray.

But what if you want to improve? What if you want to form new habits? How would you go about this?

Turns out, there’s a helpful framework that can make it easier to stick to new habits so that you can improve your health, wealth, and life in general.

How can we have the best intentions to become better, and yet still see so little progress?

We all have goals. Overall, this is a good thing. It’s nice to know what you want and having goals gives you a sense of direction and purpose. However, there is one way that your hopes and dreams actually sabotage you from becoming better: your desires can easily lure you into biting off more than you can chew.

Too often, we let our motivations and desires drive us into a frenzy as we try to solve our entire problem at once instead of starting a small, new routine.

Life goals are good to have because they provide direction, but they can also trick you into taking on more than you can handle. Daily habits — tiny routines that are repeatable — are what make big dreams a reality.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Habits Work

Chapter 2: Habit Formation

Chapter 3: Declutter Your Life through the Power of Habit

Chapter 4: Set a Plan

Chapter 5: Reinforcing New Habits

Chapter 6: Seven Habits to Live By

Conclusion

Chapter 1: How Habits Work

People are often impatient when it comes to the formation and reinforcement of habits. Everyone wants a quick fix that will readily incorporate their desired habits to their current routines, but it is not as easy as it sounds.

The simple truth is that habits take some time to stick.  According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of habit is:

a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or increased facility of performance; or

an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary.

Take note of the key phrases:  behavior pattern, frequent repetition, and acquired mode of behavior. These phrases imply that it takes time and effort to form a habit and to actually live by it.

Another tricky thing about the formation of habits is that it does not have a singular formula that will apply to every person in every situation. For example, the habit of regularly going to the gym will be different between a person who is physically active and a person who is mostly sedentary.  At the same time, the habit of regularly going to the gym has a different formula from the habit