Power of Habit - Building One Good Habit at a Time for Ultimate Success

By Jim Berry

This book, "Power of Habit: Building One Good Habit at a Time for Ultimate Success," is about taking your life to the next level of success, but not through motivation or inspiration.

We do not have those hyped transformations and overnight success stories in this book because they only trick you into doing too much, too soon. This book will only teach you the things you really need to succeed - building good habits.

You will learn why habits are powerful, how habits become habits, and how to replace the bad habits with the good habits creating a new "you" who is primed for success.

You do not need those overhyped inspirational, overnight success stories for motivation to reach greater heights. What you need is to develop the same habits those successful people have to propel you to success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: dsk-enterprise
• Release date: Jan 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393455424

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Table of Contents

1: How Habits Become Habits

2: Understanding the Habit Loop

3: Building Good Habits & Making Them Stick

5: How Long before a Behavior Turns into a Habit

6: Habits that Hold You Back From Success

7: Habits that Lead to Career Success

8: The Good Habits of Highly Successful People

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Important Insight

This book, Power of Habit: Building One Good Habit at a Time for Ultimate Success, is about taking your life to the next level of success, but not through motivation or inspiration.

We do not have those hyped transformations and overnight success stories in this book because they only trick you into doing too much, too soon. This book will only teach you the things you really need to succeed - building good habits.

You will learn why habits are powerful, how habits become habits, and how to replace the bad habits with the good habits creating a new you who is primed for success.

You do not need those overhyped inspirational, overnight success stories for motivation to reach greater heights. What you need is to develop the same habits those successful people have to propel you to success.

Chapter 1: How Habits Become Habits

The kind of life we lead today is essentially the product of our habits – our daily routines, our daily processes. And no one has ever described this natural phenomenon more accurately than the great Greek philosopher Aristotle who said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit."

What we repeatedly do, the things we read and think about, and the routine tasks we perform every single day is what shaped our beliefs and transformed us into the kind of person we are today. It is what molded the type of personality we portray. In other words, our whole life is nothing more than the sum of our habits. How successful or unsuccessful we are is the result of our habits.

Almost everyone wants to make changes in their lives. They want to be become a better person for themselves and for others. They are appalled by the overnight success of America’s youngest billionaires such as Evan Spiegel, Dustin Moskovitz, and Mark Zuckerberg. They idolize the likes of Bill Gates and Carlos Slim Helu and want to emulate them.

They would like to attain the level of success these people have achieved. The only problem is they focus too much on the stories and how these people raked in their fortunes and not on their habits and routines which really made them the icons of success they are today.

What are habits and how are they formed?

Before we delve into the habits of successful people, let us first be clear about what habits are and how they are formed. Wikipedia explains habits as routine behaviors or a fixed way of thinking, feeling, or using willpower formed by