- Read Time: 17 minutes
- By: Jen
- Updated: June 21, 2024
Are you tired of setting goals that never seem to stick?
Imagine transforming your life by 1% each day. Sounds easy, right?
In his groundbreaking book Atomic Habits, James Clear reveals how tiny, incremental changes can lead to remarkable results over time.
Ready to find out more? Read on…
What is Atomic Habits About?
Atomic Habits explores how small, incremental changes can lead to significant improvements. The idea is that focusing on getting just 1% better each day adds up over time. These tiny habits may seem insignificant at first, but they compound to create remarkable results.
Clear explains the habit loop, which consists of four stages: cue, craving, response, and reward. By understanding this loop, you can design your environment and routines to encourage good behaviors and discourage bad ones. For example, if you want to read more, place a book on your pillow as an obvious cue.
Clear defines his Four Laws of Behavior Change:
- Make it obvious (cue): Identify the cues that prompt your habits. Make the cues for the good habits obvious. For instance, if you want to drink more water, carry a water bottle with you.
- Make it attractive (craving): Pair habits with things you enjoy or find appealing. Listening to your favorite podcast while cleaning can make the activity more enticing.
- Make it easy (response): Simplify the actions required to perform a habit. You can set out your workout clothes the night before to make exercising easier in the morning.
- Make it satisfying (reward): Provide yourself with immediate rewards for completing a habit. This could be as simple as checking off a task on a to-do list, which gives you a sense of accomplishment.
Clear also emphasizes the importance of identity-based change. Instead of setting specific goals, focus on becoming the person you want to be. For instance, become a runner rather than aiming to run a marathon. Your actions should reflect the identity you want to adopt, making it easier to maintain these habits over time.
Goals provide direction, but systems are the key to sustained success. Clear argues that while goals are important, they shouldn’t be the focus. Instead, concentrate on creating systems of habits that support your goals. Think of it as building a routine that aligns with your long-term objectives. This approach ensures continuous improvement and helps you stay on track after reaching your initial goals.
Sound interesting…?
Check out my key takeaways and complete notes for a deeper dive into the ideas discussed in Atomic Habits.
My Top 10 Takeaways from Atomic Habits
I can’t believe I just got around to reading James Clear’s Atomic Habits.
The concept of “the aggregation of marginal gains” taught me that small, consistent changes can lead to significant results over time. Using a habit tracker has been crucial in my habit-building, helping me monitor progress and stay motivated.
Clear’s Four Laws of Behavior Change—make it obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying—have been game-changers for my habit formation. For example, doing dishes while I wait for dinner to cook has made my kitchen cleaner without making me feel like I’m wasting time. While not particularly attractive, this habit is obvious, easy, and satisfying.
The idea of identity-based change shifted my focus from just setting goals to becoming the person I want to be. The book’s real-life examples make these concepts relatable and actionable, demonstrating that anyone can build positive habits with the right approach.
Here are my Top 10 Takeaways from Atomic Habits:
- The Power of Small Changes: Small changes add up to significant results over time.
- 1% Improvement: Daily improvements accumulate into massive progress.
- Path to Success: Success is determined by habits over time, not current state.
- Goals vs. Systems: Systems drive progress more effectively than goals alone.
- Fix the Inputs: Refine your habits to achieve desired outcomes.
- Identity-Based Change: Align your actions with who you want to be.
- The Habit Loop: Habits follow a cycle of cue, craving, response, and reward.
- Habit Integration: Fit habits naturally into your daily life.
- Start Easy: Simplify your first steps to reduce resistance.
- Continuous Improvement: Success is an ongoing process of refinement.
Learn more about each of these in the full notes below.
My Full Notes From Atomic Habits
The following sections are a transcription of my handwritten notes from my Remarkable 2. I use the zettelkasten method with Obsidian.md, so I’ve noted my thoughts and connections while reading and a summary of keywords from each chapter.
Introduction
My Story
- “changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.” pg 7
- blog –> newsletter –> speaking, course/training, book
- #read-more-from Naval Ravikant – “To write a great book, you must first become the book.” pg 8
Keywords from Introduction
naval-ravikant, small-changes-compound
Part 1: The Fundamentals
Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference
Chapter 1: The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits
- #read-more-from Dave Brailsford – “The aggregation of marginal gains” pg 13
- 1% gains across multiple areas accumulate
- “improving by 1% isn’t particularly notable – sometimes it isn’t even noticeable” pg 15
- 1% better each day for a year = 37x better in 1 year
- 1% worse each day for a year = nearly 0 (0.03)
- compounding – positive or negative
- “a single decision is easy to dismiss.” pg 17
- “a very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination”
- “it doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success.” pg 18
- lead indicators, lag indicators –> outcomes are lag of habits
- valley of disappointment
My Connections
Lead indicators, lag indicators, and the valley of disappointment are discussed in more depth in Brian Moran’s The 12 Week Year.
Brian-Moran, Brian-Moran_Michael-Lennington_The-12-Week-Year, lead-indicators, lag-indicators, emotional-cycle-of-change
- break through the plateau – progress is not linear
- “change can take years – before it happens all at once.” pg 21
- systems rather than goals
- “goals are best for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.” pg 24
- “fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.” pg 25
- “ultimately, it is your commitments to the process that will determine your “
- atomic habits are “little habits that are part of a larger system.” pg 27
- a regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do, but also the source of incredible power, a component of the system of compound growth.”
Keywords from Chapter 1
dave-brailsford, small-changes-compound, marginal-gains, lead-indicators, lag-indicators, daily-decisions, valley-of-disappointment, emotional-cycle-of-change, goals-direction-systems-progress, atomic-habits
Chapter 2: How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa)
- 3 layers of behavior change: pg 30
- Outcomes – what you get
- Processes – what you do
- Identity – who you are
- outcome-based change versus identity-based change
- what you want to achieve versus who you want to become
- “behind every system of actions is a system of beliefs.” pg 32
- “behavior that is incongruent with the self will not last.”
My Thoughts
There needs to be balance in making something part of your identity. Identity-based change is lasting, but when you fail at something that is part of your identity, it can trigger shame.
shame, letting-go-of-shame, letting-go-of-perfectionism, identity-based-change
- “…, when your behavior and your identity are fully aligned, you are no longer pursuing behavior change. You are simply acting like the type of person you already believe yourself to be.” pg 34-35
- “the more deeply a thought or action is tied to your identity, the more difficult it is to change it.” pg 35
My Thoughts
I think about life as a series of shifting priorities. Very little is tied to my identity. If there is something that I’m not doing, it is only because it is not a priority to me right now. It is always something that I could do if I wanted to prioritize it.
e.g. At the moment, reading and writing are more important to me than loading the dishwasher and vacuuming. That doesn’t mean that “I am a slob.” (Identity) My house is just messy right now. (Low priority)
everything-is-temporary, priorities, identity
- “we are continually undergoing microevolutions of the self.” pg 38
- “the most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.”
- 2 step process: pg 39
- Decide who you want to be.
- Prove it to yourself with small wins.
- start with what you want to achieve (goal) and work backwards to the type of person who can get those results.
- feedback loops
Keywords from Chapter 2
layers-behavior-change, outcomes, processes, identity, outcome-based-change, identity-based-change, alignment, microevolution, feedback-loops
Chapter 3: How to Build Better Habits in Four Simple Steps
- #read-more-from Edward Thorndike – “behaviors followed by satisfying consequences tend to be repeated and those that produce unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated.” pg 44
- feedback loop: try –> fail –> learn –> try differently pg 45
- habits – “if this, then that” pg 45
- “habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience.” pg 46
- 4 steps to building a habit: pg 47
- cue
- craving
- response
- reward
- “habit loop“
- #read-more-from Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
- #read-more-from Nir Eyal, Hooked
- “every craving is linked to a desire to change your internal state.” pg 48
- “if a particular action requires more physical or mental effort than you are willing to expend, then you won’t do it.” pg 49
- “all behavior is driven by the desire to solve a problem.” pg 51
- 4 laws of behavior change: pg 54
- For building good habits:
- cue – law: Make it obvious.
- craving – law: Make it attractive.
- response – law: Make it easy.
- reward – law: Make it satisfying.
- For breaking bad habits:
- cue – law: Make it invisible.
- craving – law: Make it unattractive.
- response – law: Make it difficult.
- reward – law: Make it unsatisfying.
- For building good habits:
My Thoughts
This is the answer (make it easy) to why I am willing to go to extraordinary lengths to solve a problem in a way that makes it so I pretty much never have to think about it again.
generate-solutions, problem-solving, designing-solutions
Keywords from Chapter 3
edward-thorndike, feedback-loops, fail-learn-try-differently, habits, cue, craving, response, rewards, charles-duhigg, charles-duhigg_the-power-of-habit, nir-eyal, nir-eyal_hooked, habit-loop, four-laws-behavior-change, make-it-obvious, make-it-attractive, make-it-easy, make-it-satisfying, building-good-habits, breaking-bad-habits, make-it-invisible, make-it-unattractive, make-it-unsatisfying, make-it-difficult
Part 2: The First Law
Make It Obvious
Chapter 4: The Man Who Didn't Look Right
- “the human brain is a prediction machine” pg 60
- “… you don’t need to be aware of the cue for the habit to begin.” pg 61
- need to bring conscious awareness back to what you’re doing so you can decide whether to keep it or not.
- habit scorecard – “does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be?” pg 65
- “observe your thoughts and actions without judgment…” pg 65
- need to bring conscious awareness back to what you’re doing so you can decide whether to keep it or not.
My Thoughts
Judgement leads to shame. Shame makes it more difficult to change.
- pointing-and-calling – state the consequences of a negative action out loud and then either choose it or don’t.
Keywords from Chapter 4
brain-prediction-machine, conscious-awareness, habit-scorecard, pointing-and-calling
Chapter 5: The Best Way to Start a New Habit
- implementation intention – plan of when and where
- “When X happens, I will Y” pg 70
- clarifies “I want…” into real steps.
- “many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity.” pg 71
- “I will BEHAVIOR at TIME in LOCATION.”
My Thoughts
“I will BEHAVIOR at TIME in LOCATION.”
This idea makes me hyperventilate. The idea of having to do something in such a structured way does not work with my personality. I need to be more free-flowing, using the idea of “I am going to do BEHAVIOR every day. I will work it in when it fits.”
Does it always happen? No.
But, if I made such a structured plan as suggested, it would never happen. The time would come and I wouldn’t be at the location, so I’d just be like “whelp… Guess I’m not doing that today.”
INFP, structure, low-conscientiousness, structured-spontaneity
- habit stacking – alternative form of implementation intention
- #read-more-from BJ Fogg – Tiny Habits program
- “After I CURRENT HABIT, I will NEW HABIT.” pg 74
- be cognizant of where you stack your new habit.
- fit
- specificity
My Thoughts
“After I CURRENT HABIT, I will NEW HABIT.”
This is much more doable for me, and I use it frequently. If I am already doing something in a specific place, then I might as well do another related thing while I’m there.
e.g. Unload/load the dishwasher while dinner is cooking. Brush my hair and then brush my teeth.
Activation energy has already been spent, so might as well continue momentum to get as much done as possible.
activation-energy, momentum, structured-spontaneity
Keywords from Chapter 5
implementation-intentions, motivation-vs-clarity, habit-stacking
Chapter 6: Motivation is Overrated: Environment Often Matters More
- #read-more-from Kurt Lewin – “People often choose products not because of what they are, but because of where they are.” pg 83
- B = f(P,E)
- #read-more-from Anne Thorndike, behavior study pg 82
- suggestion impulse buying
- “some experts estimate that half of the brain’s resources are used on vision.” pg 84
- “a small change in what you see can lead to a big shift in what you do.”
- be the architect of your environment
- “when the cues that spark a habit are subtle or hidden, they are easy to ignore.” pg 85
- “if you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.” pg 86
- “our behavior is not defined by the objects in the environment, but by our relationship with them.” pg 87
- “go to a new place – … – and create a new routine there.” pg 88
- “when you can’t manage an entirely new environment, redefine or rearrange your current one.” pg 89
- “one space. one use.” pg 89 –> avoid mixing
Keywords from Chapter 6
kurt-lewin, hawkins-stern, impulse-buying, anne-thorndike, environment-design, cue, make-it-obvious
Chapter 7: The Secret of Self-Control
- “the idea that a little bit of discipline would solve all our problems is deeply embedded in our culture.” pg 92
- “‘disciplined’ people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control.” pg 92-93
- “once a habit has been encoded, the urge to act follows whenever the environmental cues reappear.” pg 93
- “cue-induced wanting” – “once you notice something, you begin to want it.” pg 94
- “you can break a habit, but you are unlikely to forget it.” pg 94
- “make it invisible” pg 95
Keywords from Chapter 7
self-discipline, structure, make-it-invisible
Part 3: The Second Law
Make It Attractive
Chapter 8: How to Make a Habit Irresistible
- #read-more-from Niko Tinbergen
- supernormal stimuli
- dopamine spikes – dopamine drives desire
- “whenever you predict that an opportunity will be rewarding, your levels of dopamine spike in anticipation.” pg 106
- “your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them.” pg 108
- temptation bundling – tie something you need to do with something you want to do
- Premack’s principle – “more probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behaviors.” pg 110
- combine habit stacking with temptation bundling
Keywords from Chapter 8
niko-tinbergen, supernormal-stimuli, dopamine, desire, wanting-versus-liking, temptation-bundling, premacks-principle
Chapter 9: The Role of Family and Friends in Shaping Your Habits
- “humans are herd animals.” pg 115
- “we don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.” pg 115
- “behaviors are attractive when they help us fit in.” pg 116
- imitation
- proximity – “we soak up the qualities and practices of those around us.” pg 117
- “nothing sustains motivation better than belonging to the tribe.” pg 118
- the crowd – #read-more-from Solomon Asch experiment – “…, nearly 75 percent of the subjects had agreed with the group answer even though it was obviously incorrect.” pg 120
- power – “we are drawn to behaviors that earn us respect, approval, admiration, and status.” pg 121
- “we imitate people we envy.” pg 122
- if you want to change, find a place where the behavior you want is the norm.
- proximity – “we soak up the qualities and practices of those around us.” pg 117
Keywords from Chapter 9
humans-are-herd-animals, imitation, proximity, following-the-crowd, respect-and-power, approval, admiration, social-status, humans-are-social-animals
Chapter 10: How to Find and Fix the Causes of Your Bad Habits
- invert the second law to break bad habits… make it unattractive.
- “a craving is just a specific manifestation of a deeper underlying motive.” pg 127
- “there are many different ways to address the same underlying motive.” pg 128
- “the cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them.” pg 129
- “you can make hard habits more attractive if you learn to associate them with a positive experience.” pg 130
- “get to” versus “have to”
My Thoughts
“get to” versus “have to”
This fits with my mindset that I choose everything. Every action is a choice and I do not have to do anything. I just have to be willing to deal with the consequences of my decisions.
- reframing
- motivation ritual
Keywords from Chapter 10
make-it-unattractive, underlying-motives, get-to-versus-have-to, reframing, motivation-ritual
Part 4: The Third Law
Make It Easy
Chapter 11: Walk Slowly, but Never Backward
- “it is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change…” pg 142
- “being in motion” versus “taking action” pg 142
- planning, learning versus actually doing the thing
- “the more you repeat an activity, the more the structure of your brain changes to become more efficient at that activity.” pg 143
- long-term potentiation – Hebb’s law #read-more-from Donald Hebb
- “…, particular regions of the brain adapt as they are used and atrophy as they are abandoned.” pg 144
- automaticity – “ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step.” pg 145
- learning curves
- “habits form based on frequency, not time.” pg 145
Keywords from Chapter 11
motion-versus-action, repetition, long-term-potentiation, hebbs-law, donald-hebb, automaticity, learning-curves, frequency-versus-time
Chapter 12: The Law of Least Effort
- #read-more-from Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, Steel book
- “…, our real motivation is to be lazy and to do what is convenient.” pg 151
- path of least resistance
- “you don’t actually want the habit itself. What you really want is the outcome the habit delivers.” pg 152
- “the idea is to make it as easy as possible in the moment to do things that payoff in the long run.” pg 153
- environment design
- “habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life.” pg 153
- “business is a never-ending quest to deliver the same result in an easier fashion.” pg 155
- #read-more-from Oswald Nuckols, “proactively lazy“
- “redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.” pg 158
Keywords from Chapter 12
jared-diamond, jared-diamond_guns-germs-steel, laziness, convenience, path-of-least-resistance, environment-design, oswald-nuckols, proactively-lazy
Chapter 13: How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the Two-Minute Rule
- decisive moments – forks in the road
- two-minute rule – “when you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.” pg 162
- “gateway habit” pg 163
- “…master the habit of showing up” pg 163
- “you have to standardize before you can optimize” pg 164
- “make it easy to start and the rest will follow.” pg 164
- “… always stay below the point where it feels like work.” pg 165
- “It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.” pg 165
- habit shaping – build out the habit to meet the full goal
Keywords from Chapter 13
decisive-moments, two-minute-rule, gateway-habit, habit-shaping
Chapter 14: How to Make Good Habits Inevitable and Bad Habits Impossible
- “sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.” pg 169
- commitment device – “choice you make in the present that controls your actions in the future.” pg 170
- strategic one-time decisions
- technology as a tool
Keywords from Chapter 14
make-it-difficult, commitment-device, strategic-one-time-decision, technology-as-a-tool
Part 5: The Fourth Law
Make It Satisfying
Chapter 15: The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change
- “pleasure teaches your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.” pg 185
- “positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them.” pg 186
- immediate satisfaction/instant gratification
- time inconsistency – hyperbolic discounting
- “value the present more than the future” pg 188
- “the consequences of a bad habit are delayed while the rewards are immediate.” pg 188
- reinforcement – “… the process of using an immediate reward to increase the rate of a behavior.” pg 191
- make sure that “the short term reward is aligned with your long-term vision…” pg 192
Keywords from Chapter 15
pleasure, positive-emotions, instant-gratification, hyperbolic-discounting, consequences, positive-reinforcement
Chapter 16: How to Stick with Good Habits Every Day
- paper clip strategy
- habit trackers
- “never miss twice” pg 201
- measure the right thing
- Goodhart’s Law – “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” pg 203
Keywords from Chapter 16
paper-clip-strategy, habit-trackers, never-miss-twice, measure-progress, goodharts-law
Chapter 17: How an Accountability Partner Can Change Everything
- “if a failure is painful, it gets fixed.” pg 206
- “increase the speed of the punishment associated with the behavior.” pg 206
- habit contract – #read-more-from Brian Harris
- “knowing someone is watching can be a powerful motivator.” pg 210
Keywords from Chapter 17
accountability-buddy, accountability, punishment, habit-contract, brian-harris
Part 6: Advanced Tactics
How to Go From Being Merely Good to Being Truly Great
Chapter 18: The Truth About Talent (When Genes Matter and When They Don't)
- “the secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competition.” pg 218
- #read-more-from Gabor Mate “Genes can predispose, but they can’t predetermine.” pg 219
- Big Five personality traits
- noise in nursing ward – babies turn toward or away – extravert or introvert
- high in agreeableness has higher natural oxytocin
- high neuroticism – hypersensitivity in amygdala
- “build habits that work for your personality.” pg 221
- “choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.” pg 222
- “pick the right habit and progress is easy. Pick the wrong habit and life is a struggle.” pg 223
- explore/exploit trade-off pg 224-225
- “what feels like fun to me, but work to others?”
- “what makes me lose track of time?”
- “where do I get greater returns than the average person?”
- “what comes naturally to me?”
Keywords from Chapter 18
choose-the-best-fit, gabor-mate, genes-can-predispose-not-predetermine, big-five-personality-traits, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, explore-exploit-trade-off
Chapter 19: The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and Work
- “the human brain loves a challenge, but only if it is within an optimal zone of difficulty.” pg 231
- Goldilocks rule – “humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities.” pg 231
- flow state – “4% beyond your current ability” pg 233
- boredom of routine – “fall in love with boredom” pg 235
- variable reward
- #read-more-from BF Skinner – mouse food
- 50:50 success rate
- “… there will always be days you feel like quitting.” pg 236
Keywords from Chapter 19
challenges, optimal-zone-of-difficulty, goldilocks-rule, motivation, flow, bore-out, boredom, variable-reward, bf-skinner, quitting
Chapter 20: The Downside of Creating Good Habits
- mindless repetition
- “when you can do it ‘good enough’ on autopilot, you stop thinking about how to do it better.” pg 239
- “you can’t repeat the same things blindly and expect to become exceptional.” pg 240
- “habits + deliberate practice = mastery” pg 240
- reflection, documentation, journaling
- re-evaluate your identity
- “the tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.” pg 247
- “when you cling too tightly to one identity, you become brittle. Lose that one thing and you lose yourself.” pg 248
Keywords from Chapter 20
mindlessness, mindless-repetition, autopilot, deliberate-practice, mastery, reflection, documentation, journaling, re-evaluate-your-identity
Conclusion: The Secret to Results That Last
- “success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.” pg 252
Keywords from Conclusion
continuous-improvement
Go Beyond the Book Notes for Atomic Habits
While these notes share the ideas important to me in this book, there’s no substitute for reading it yourself. Consider reading (or listening) on your own to find what fascinates YOU!
Where to Go for More from James Clear
If you want to learn more about James Clear and his work on habits, visit his website at jamesclear.com. There you can:
- Read his blog: Articles and insights from James Clear on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
- Get the “3-2-1” newsletter: Sign up for James Clear’s popular email newsletter, the “3-2-1,” which delivers bite-sized content directly to your inbox. You can also read past issues without signing up.
- Sign up for his free 30-day habit course: Get a structured guide and tools for habit formation with his “30 Days to Better Habits” course.
- Get the Atoms app: The app leverages the core ideas discussed in Atomic Habits with tools like habit tracking, reminders, and progress visualization to support your journey toward better habits.
What to Read Next if You Like Atomic Habits
If Atomic Habits resonated with you, here are a few books that build on its concepts to guide you through changing your behavior.
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
The Power of Habit explores the science behind habit formation. It offers practical insights on how to rewire your routines for success.
Thinking in Systems introduces the concept of systems thinking. It helps you understand how small changes within a larger framework can lead to significant improvements.
Essentialism emphasizes the importance of focusing on what truly matters. It teaches you how to eliminate distractions and make meaningful progress toward your goals.
Each book complements the principles laid out in Atomic Habits, providing a comprehensive approach to transformation and growth.
Wrapping Up: My Final Thoughts on Atomic Habits
In Atomic Habits, James Clear expertly dissects the mechanics of habit formation and provides invaluable strategies for achieving lasting change.
One of the book’s most important takeaways is that success is not a finite goal. It’s an ongoing process. Incremental progress is the key to building sustainable habits that eventually lead to dramatic transformations.
Now it’s time to apply the principles from Atomic Habits to your life!
Start by identifying one small habit you want to develop. Focus on making tiny, incremental improvements each day. Reflect regularly, document your progress, and don’t forget to reassess along the way.
Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Take the first step today and set the foundation for a lifetime of success and growth.
References
Clear, James. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. New York: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
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