Changing Habits: Improve your Life by Changing your Habits. Stop Procrastinating, Create Healthy Behaviors, End Unhealthy Thinking and be More Successful: Invincible Mind
By John Roberts
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Have you ever tried to change your habits and failed multiple times?
Somewhere between 80 percent and 92 percent of the promises made by New Year Resolutioners fail.
Most people get used to this cycle of failure and eventually give up completely, thinking that changing habits is impossible for them and that only those with endless willpower can succeed at it.
Here's some of what you can expect to learn inside the pages of this book:
- Discover how to deal with the most damaging behaviors we do on auto-pilot.
- A step-by-step process that will help you develop long-term habits.
- Learn at which pace you should advance so that you never feel burnt out or unmotivated.
- How to deal with distractions that can hinder your progress.
- Avoiding the most common mistakes when changing habits.
Believe it or not, even dramatic habitual changes are possible.
Luckily, changing habits is a skill, and one that we can practice and refine so that we can eventually become really good at.
Over the long-term, even small efforts can have significant life-altering effects.
There is no better time to start the journey towards an improved quality of life. Start by changing your habits today!
John Roberts
John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books, including The Intangibilities of Form (Verso, 2007), Philosophising the Everyday (Pluto, 2006) and Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2016). He edited the English translation of Boris Arvatov's classic Art and Production (Pluto, 2017).
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Introduction
Somewhere between 80 percent and 92 percent of the promises made by New Year Resolutioners fail. Some are interested in losing weight while others promise themselves that they will finally start working on the new business idea they’ve been thinking about for years. However, we all know what usually happens after a few weeks: most people go back to their old habits. Most people have gotten used to this cycle and have even given up completely, thinking that changing habits is impossible for them and that only those with a lot of willpower are able to succeed at it.
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There’s no denying that our lives run on habits. We have subconscious behaviours for pretty much everything we do: from how we eat, to how we approach work and how we sleep. These subconscious decisions are what make us spring out of bed every morning or hit the snooze button several times.
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Even if you feel as if your everyday routines are working okay for you, there’s always something you can change and try to improve a little every day. Over the long-term these small efforts can have significant life-altering effects that will eventually have a positive impact on your quality of life.
Being skilled at changing habits can have also have several indirect positive effects. For example, impulsivity might be reduced and our problem solving capabilities are significantly enhanced.
Believe it or not, even dramatic habitual changes are possible. Luckily, changing habits is a skill, and one that we can practice and refine so that we can eventually become really good at. After a while, it will become second nature and instead of constantly daydreaming about which new habits you’d like to live with, you can try them out without much discomfort or feeling as if you had to give