ATOMIC HABITS:: How to Disagree With Your Brain so You Can Break Bad Habits and End Negative Thinking

By Dr. Dan Builfford

THE LATEST STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES:
BUILD GOOD HABITS
BREAK BAD HABITS
END NEGATIVE THINKING
Habits are the cornerstone of how we live our lives, and good habits are the foundation of a successful life. In fact, understanding how habits work is actually the key to building good habits and breaking bad habits, whether with regard to weight loss, regular exercising, better productivity, defeating negative thinking, overcoming addiction, or achieving overall success, etc. This great book will teach you about habits, why habits exist, how they are built, how they are broken, and how you can easily change your own habits to transform your life. 
This book will teach you about: habit and goal identification, mindfulness, motivation, commitment, using the atomic steps or mini steps tactic, the importance of timing to habit modification, dealing with obstacles, role model emulation, the trigger tactic, environmental modification, the importance of monitoring, journaling and rewarding, how to avoid inevitable temptations, and the habit-twinning, and habit-counteracting tactics. And most importantly, this book also discloses the greatest habit change secret of all time!
The bottom line is this: if you desire to acquire the strategies and techniques that can help you to change any aspect of yourself, or to rapidly build the good habits you need, or to quickly break your bad habits (including ending the bad habit of negative thinking), or simply to prepare yourself for greatness and transform your life, BUY THIS BOOK NOW!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prayermost Publishing
• Release date: Oct 22, 2018

Book preview

CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO HABITS

I am not your shadow, but I am like it. I am always with you, and always will be.

Half the things you think you do are actually done by me. I am at your command, but you are at my command, too.

I can be your greatest asset or your heaviest liability. I can bring you profit, or bring you to ruin. It makes no difference to me.

Teach me exactly how to do a thing and I will do it quickly, automatically, and exactly, every time. But fail to teach me, and I’ll teach myself, not necessarily the best, but the least effortless way to it.

I can push you up to greatness or pull you down to failure. I have served all the great men and alas, all the failures too.

I am easy to manage, but be firm with me. If you’re firm with me, I’ll put the world at your feet, but be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

I am your friend and your foe, both your doing and your undoing. I am your lifelong partner.

Who am I?

I am HABIT!

The above captures the centrality and importance of habit in our lives. In life we are all defined by our habits. Our life experiences are determined by our habits, and our daily routines. It is therefore vital that we watch our habits, that we form those good habits which will enable us to achieve our goals in life, and that we break free from the bad habits which can only detract us from finding our purpose and achieving our goals.

Forming a new good habit or breaking an old bad habit can be challenging. But at the same time, it can be easy. It can be easy if you know how to go about it, if you understand the nature of habits, how they are formed, and the rules that sustain them. If you have this understanding, then, you will see that habit change and management is easy. And also vital, as quite simply, habits are the key to success in virtually every area in life.

Habits have to be given thought. They have to be planned and managed. One ought to occasionally take stock of one’s habits, review one’s good or positive habits, recognize them and deliberately devise ways to maintain and preserve them.

At the same time it is also important to identify your negative or bad habits, acknowledge them, understand their short-term and long-term consequences in your life, and then determinedly work on them, one after another, until you eliminate them from your life.

Habits can work for or against your interest. But the good news is that with a good plan and determination, you can harness habits to work for you, for your benefit. You can become the master of your habits, recruiting those habits that are beneficial to you and banishing those that are disadvantageous to your life.

Granted, good habits are usually more difficult to form, as compared to their negative counterparts. But good habits can still be easily formed. The trick is to get started at all, even if it is in the least way possible, but to get started at all. Once you get started with forming the habit, even in the most miniscule way possible, eventually the principle of incrementalism will set in and soon enough the new behavior will become easier to perform, and ultimately will become routine.

The same thing goes for breaking bad habits. For each bad habit that you formed, it had required a certain number of doings or repetitions to get you to your current level and intensity of that habit. And to un-form this habit, there is for you a specific number of undoings of that habit that will finally break it. The undoings do not have to be continuous. They may be continual, yet, they must be consistent.

The undoings of those bad habits are also cumulative, and so long as you persist and eventually reach that specific number of undoings (that tipping point), you will surely break that habit. The key is to persist in undoing that bad habit one undoing at a time until you reach the specific number that will do the trick, and at that point you would have broken the bad habit.

If you truly desire to form a new habit, or to break an old bad habit, you will find all the hacks, tricks, tips and tactics you need to achieve your desire in this book. In fact, the fact that you are reading this book right now shows that your mind is in the right place and that you are off to a good start. So go ahead and read this whole book and then apply the simple but powerful lessons you will learn from this book to help you to take charge of your habits and transform your life.

In this book you will learn how to easily form a new habit, including identifying your motivation, creating a cue, and tracking your progress. On the other hand, if you have a bad habit that you want to get rid of, this book will also show you all the hacks, tricks, tips and tactics you need to accomplish that.