Habit Ignition: 41 Steps To Unlocking The Secret Power Of Habits And Rituals For Life Books

By Chris A Baird

LEARN: The Secret Power of Habits

Do you need help breaking old habits? Do you need a clear path to building new habits?

The good news is that you don't need to make any expensive investments in life coaching or fancy technology. You already have everything you need to create or break habits, but lack the dire

• Language: English
• Publisher: Urgesta AS
• Release date: Dec 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798889130024

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Habits

Habit Ignition: 41 Steps to Unlocking the Secret Power of Habits and Rituals for Life Book

By Chris A. Baird

Habits: Habit Ignition: 41 Steps to Unlocking the Secret Power of Habits and Rituals for Life Book

Copyright © 2021 - All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher, CAB Publishing. Please read the full disclaimer at the end of this book.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

1 - Introduction

Why Did I Write This book?

How To Use This Book

Habit Ignition Cheat Sheet

What Are Habits?

Rituals or Habits?

Do They Have a Purpose?

The Downside

The Good, the Bad and the Neutral?

Invisible Habits

Habit Blindness

The Path of Progress

(1) Use SOARR Method Model (Stop, Observe, Ask, Reframe, Respond)

2 - Habit Mapping

Habits of Thought

Habits of Speech

Habits of Action

(2) Keep a Journal to Learn Your Daily Habits

Is Your List Complete?

3 - Choose the Habit You Wish to Change or Add

(3) Create one habit at a time

Bad Habits and Addictions

(4) Do It Now

4 - The Anatomy of a Habit

Trigger

Routine or Ritual

Reward

(5) Focus on Craving Creation

(6) Start with Keystone Habits

(7) Drop Toxic Habits First

Habits Make Life Fly by

The Catch 22 of Habits

(8) Never Underestimate The Challenge

(9) Willpower Is Not the Key

(10) Change Your Lifestyle

Doomed By the Path of Least Resistance

(11) Reframe the Problem

(12) Flock to Birds of a Different Feather

5 - Breaking Habits

Habits versus Intentions

(13) Keep in Mind What You Have In Common with Dogs

(14) Respond Differently To the Trigger

(15) Replace One Habit with Another

(16) Replace Negative Thoughts with But

(17) Remove the Ability to Do the Habit Ritual Itself

(18) Set up Negative Consequences for Giving In

(19) Don’t Take a Break

(20) Don’t Go It Alone

6 - Forming Habits

Myth of 21 Days for Habit Creation

(21) Use Mind Maps

(22) Aim Low

(23) Set Intrinsic Rewards

(24) Use the If-Then Method

(25) Focus on the Environment

(26) Build Your Habit Parallel with another Activity

(27) Remove Unnecessary Decisions

(28) Embrace Honest Positive Thinking

(29) Visualize Process Not Goal Achievement

(30) Set Daily Quotas

(31) Remind Yourself

(32) Keep It Simple

(33) Use Rewards

(34) Surround Yourself With Others Who Have The Habit You want

(35) Withhold Rewards

(36) Link Habits to Your Daily Routine, Not Time Of The Day

(37) Reinforce Habits

(38) Watch Out For the What-The-Hell Effect

(39) Use Technology Building Habits

(40) Don’t Give Up

7 - (41) WOOP Exercise

(W) Wish

(O) Outcome

(O) Obstacles/Barriers to Habit Change

(P) Plan

Example

8 - Evaluation Time

Is It Gone Now?

Failure?

Congratulations! You Have a New Habit

9 - Final Thoughts

Thank You

Disclaimer

1 - Introduction

Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. - Confucius

This book is the second book in the bestselling PowerLists™ book series. Each PowerList™ book is designed to help you get more out of life.

Why Did I Write This book?

I wrote this book because habits decide whether or not a person achieves their goals. Too many people are nearsighted about the role of habits in their lives. Almost everything we do daily is governed by a series of habits or rituals that are invisible to us. It is when we examine our lives that we:

Notice the impact of these habits.

Take action against our negative habits.

Create new habits.

Self-examination leads to habit ignition. It involves grabbing the reins on our habits and aligning them with our long term goals. Since habits require little thought or feeling, they are a great way to reach our goals with little effort once they are in place.

I am not arguing that destroying habits or creating habits is easy. I am arguing that the tactics and strategies explored in this book are tested and have proven to be effective in the laboratory and outside the laboratory in real life situations.

Just consider, if even one of these tips empowered you to remove one of your negative habits or to create a new positive habit, it would be worthwhile. This is something I need to work on daily. My biggest wins have come through the habits I set in place and, even better, the ones I have squelched.

How To Use This Book

It is impossible for anyone to implement all of the suggestions I have in this book. However, if my tips help you break bad habits and build new ones, I will have succeeded in the purpose of this book. Try out the different tips and see what does or doesn’t work for you.

Habit Ignition Cheat Sheet

I created a one page pdf Habit Ignition Cheat Sheet¹ to make it easy for you to be able to follow along as you work through the book. It shows you all 41 steps and can be used as a checklist or refresher on the different methods explored in the book.

What Are Habits?

A usual way of behaving: something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way – "Habit²." Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

There are several parts of this definition central to getting a grip on why we do what we do. A habit is a usual way of behaving. It isn’t