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Conclusion 

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 2 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

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Personal Development

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Books

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: <ul><li>make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);</li></ul><ul><li>overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;</li></ul><ul><li>design your environment to make success easier;</li></ul><ul><li>get back on track when you fall off course;</li></ul>...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

James Clear is the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" He writes about habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement at jamesclear.com. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Learn more at jamesclear.com

James Clear

Atomic Habits

A good life is not just about big ideas. It's found in our daily actions, purpose, and values. Here's how:
 <ul>
 <li>Connect with loved ones and build meaningful relationships 💕</li>
 <li>Pursue passions and do things that bring joy 🌟</li>
 <li>Take care of your physical and mental health 🧘</li>
 <li>Set goals and work towards achieving them 🎯</li>
 <li>Contribute to society and make a positive impact 🌎</li>
 </ul>

The Real Meaning of a Good Life - The Mundane and Transcendental

<ul><li>It's easy to confuse "purpose" and "meaning" when talking about life, but the two are not necessarily the same.</li><li>While we expect to find purpose and meaning in life, these are complex concepts and can be influenced by transcendental ideas. </li><li>However, whether life has "meaning" is a philosophical question that we won't address here. </li><li>What we do know is that a person's life has multiple purposes, not just one.</li></ul>

Understanding Purpose and Meaning in Life

Every day, we all have a purpose that drives us to get up and go. It may seem ordinary, but it's the combination of our daily routines that give our lives value. Here are some examples: 
<ul>
 <li> We want to work and provide for our loved ones </li>
 <li> We care for others and interact with them </li>
 <li> We strive to learn and expand our knowledge </li>
 <li> We seek joy and happiness </li>
 <li> We try to avoid suffering </li>
</ul>
 These may seem like simple things, but they are what give our lives purpose and meaning. So don't underestimate the power of your daily routines - they are what keep us going! 😊

Our Daily Purpose

Life is not a movie where we have to follow a specific purpose and reach a successful ending. Our purpose is not defined and we should focus on living a good life. However, a good life has many components and cannot be reduced to a single motive or goal.
Key Concepts:
<ul>
 <li>Life is not a movie where we have a predetermined mission.</li>
 <li>We should aim to live a good life, but it is composed of many elements.</li>
 <li>A good life cannot be reduced to a single motivation or target.</li>
</ul>

Living a Good Life

Sometimes, we may be stuck in searching for that 'one' purpose in our life. This is a refreshing article with describes 'purpose' as larger than just that 'one' big vision, but also in the daily habits that may seem mundane to us. Daily purpose is what keeps us going. This resonates well with me. ❤️

Personal Perspective: What moves you to get up in the morning is often mundane.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Philosophy

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Mindfulness

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Habits

Life Has No Single Purpose, but Many

What's the difference in a routine and a practice?<ul><li>Riding your Peloton every day at 5:45 a.m. is a routine; exercising every day is a practice.</li><li>Eating apple slices before you work out and oatmeal with blueberries afterward is a routine; eating healthy is a practice.</li><li>Holding an all-hands Zoom call every day at 1 p.m. is a routine; regularly checking in with employees to see if they need help or guidance or a quick word of encouragement is a practice.</li></ul>

Routines Versus Practices

<ul><li>Your bike breaks? If exercise is a practice, you'll spend those 45 minutes doing bodyweight exercises. Or a few HIIT workouts. Or going for a jog.</li><li>While the bike may have been your preferred option, you can still exercise.</li><li>The difference is in the flexibility. </li></ul>

The Difference Is In The Flexibility 

The difference is in the flexibility. One is about daily rhythm. The other is a lifelong pursuit. One can be ruined by something as simple as hitting the snooze button one too many times or getting called into work unexpectedly. The other can adapt accordingly.One (a routine) is something you made up. The other (a practice) is something you do.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">When something happens to mess up your routine, don't dwell on the "what." Think about the "why." </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on the goal your routine helps you achieve.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">And then just achieve that goal, this time, in a different way.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Never lose sight of the fact that every element in a routine is goal-driven - if not, why is it part of your routine? - and there are a variety of different ways to achieve a goal. To eat healthy. To check in with employees. To monitor performance. To get customer feedback. To do almost anything.</li></ul>

Focus On The Goal

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">No matter how important, no matter how regimented, no matter how carefully constructed, routines are not who you are.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Routines are simply what you do: what you choose to do.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A kink in your routine cannot change who you are - and, more important, who you hope to become.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Unless you let it.</li></ul>

Routines Are Not Who You Are

<ul><li>Routines are great. </li><li>Until something disrupts that routine, especially since the more rigidly you follow a routine, the more likely a single broken link will disrupt the entire chain. </li><li>How can you keep that from happening? The key (hat tip to Ryan Holiday for the concept) is to TURN A ROUTINE INTO A PRACTICE. </li></ul>

Routines Are Great... Until Something Disrupts It

Routines are what you do. Practices are also what you do, but are, more important, who you are.

A good reminder to not be obsessed with routine, and to stay focused on the big picture. Having activities that are part of our practices which eventuality lead to our big goals are a more wholesome, effective and productive way to live our days. 

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Productivity

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Learning & Education

What People With a Success Mindset Do Instead of Follow Morning Routines 

<ul><li>The average person needs a lot of time to wake up and get out of bed. </li><li>However, you can change your paradigm by getting up early so you can make the most of the day. Most successful people are early risers.</li><li>To make things happen, get in the habit of waking up early and getting out of bed quickly to act on your goal. </li><li>Recognize what a gift each day is and be excited about what it will bring.</li></ul>

Habit 6 – Wake Up Early

<ul><li>To make things happen, you have to pursue your goals and dreams relentlessly.</li><li>You must overcome adversity and persist, sweeping aside anything that stands between you and your goals.</li><li>Persistence is an essential factor in achieving any goal that makes you stretch. </li><li>So, get in the habit of pivoting or finding ways to navigate around impasses.</li><li>Finish what you set out to do.</li></ul>

Habit 5 - Stay the Course

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">When you take responsibility for your life, you do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for your behavior or results.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You decide what you want, and then consciously create a plan to be, do, or have it.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Remember the four kinds of people? Well, the last three groups - people who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened, and those who don’t know anything happened—are not taking responsibility for their lives.</li><li>Instead of making decisions and acting on what they want, they’re letting conditions dictate their lives.</li></ul>

Habit 1 – Take Responsibility

<ul><li>Develop a CLEAR mental picture of what you want. </li><li>Then, keep that image in mind as long and as often as possible. </li><li>To be able to do that, all you need is to KNOW what you want and to want it so badly that it will stay in your thoughts.</li><li>The CLEARER and MORE DEFINITE your picture, the more you FOCUS on it and all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be. </li><li>And the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to keep your mind fixed upon the PICTURE of what you want.</li><li>By keeping that picture in mind, you manage yourself every day TO BE AND DO what really matters most.</li></ul>

Habit 2 – Create a Mental Image

<ul><li>Habit 1 teaches you to take charge of your behavior & thus, your outcomes. </li><li>Habit 2 teaches you to use your mental power to visualize your desired results.</li><li>Bringing these two ideas together, Habit 3 adds your ability to make your ideas a reality.</li><li>Make a list of the most important things u must accomplish each day.</li><li>Make sure you do at least one thing each day that moves you closer to your goal.</li><li>Discipline is about being willing to act upon your own deepest values. </li><li>It’s giving yourself a command & then following through on it, even if it means missing parties or not eating the junk food u crave<warningtag>.</warningtag></li></ul>

Habit 3 – Prioritize and Exercise Discipline

<ul><li>Spend part of each day involved in self-development and self-renewal.</li><li>In addition to taking care of your body, commit to increasing your mental, emotional, and spiritual health.</li><li>Study a book every day. There are tremendous benefits to be had by rubbing your mind against the minds of great authors. </li><li>Continuing education is the answer to real success. However, in a different way than you might expect.</li><li>Rather than increasing the intellect, you must develop your untapped potential. Lifelong learning is the only way to do that.</li></ul>

Habit 4 – Commit to Lifelong Learning

<ul><li>These are powerful, life-altering habits. And none of them are hard. </li><li>You can start developing or strengthening these habits right now. But start small – make one change at a time.</li><li>Over time, you can experience a synergetic effect from your new habits. </li><li>Synergy occurs when the sum is greater than the separate parts. Not only will you move closer to your goal, but you’ll also become happier, more prosperous, and more creative.</li></ul>

Start with Small Bites 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">There are natural laws that exist and are always at work in our lives, whether we believe in them or not.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">I knew if I wanted to become a person who makes things happen, I would have to take steps to change my paradigm and align my thoughts and behaviors with natural laws. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">This kind of change must come from the inside-out.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If you want to become a person who lives into your potential, developing these six habits will align you with those natural laws, change your paradigm, and upgrade your life. </li></ul>

Align Yourself With Natural Laws

We think we see the world as it is.We don’t.We see the world as we were conditioned to see it.We see the world through the lens of our paradigm, which controls our effectiveness and results in most areas of our lives.

How We See The world

There are 4 kinds of people in this world :<ol><li class="ql-align-center">those who make things happen</li><li class="ql-align-center">those who watch things happen</li><li class="ql-align-center">those who wonder what happened</li><li class="ql-align-center">those that don’t know that anything happened!</li></ol>

Simple actions taken consciously, daily, and in alignment with our clear goals, will create impactful and meaningful results in the long run. ❤️

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Entrepreneurship

6 Habits That Shift Your Paradigm and Upgrade Your Life

<ul><li>The sooner you start making small changes, the more powerfully the Compound Effect works for you.</li><li>Procrastination on behaviors, habits, disciplines is dangerous!</li><li>The key is to start now.</li></ul>

Time Matters

<ul><li>Successful people aren’t more intelligent/talented, they just have habits that help them be more informed, knowledgeable, skilled, prepared, competent. </li><li>With enough practice/repetition, any behavior becomes automatic over time.</li><li>Life is a product of moment-to-moment choices.</li><li>Every choice is getting you closer to that ultimate goal.</li><li>The instant gratification trap: Immediate gratification turns us into reactive, nonthinking animals.</li><li>Slight adjustments to daily routines can alter life outcomes.</li></ul>

<ol><li>Find your motivation.</li><li>Choose one new habit, get hooked, the other behaviors will fall in line.</li><li>Start with an easy task.</li><li>Why-power will fuel your new health habits.</li></ol>

Success Is A Marathon

<ol><li>Pick an area you want to be successful in. Picture where you are now, where you want to be.</li><li>1st step toward change: Awareness.</li><li>Be aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.</li><li>Track every action that relates to the area of life you want to improve.</li></ol>Magic: do simple things repeatedly for long enough that the Compound Effect kicks in.

Success Formula

You make choices, then choices make you !

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. You will find strategies including: How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced. Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress. The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing. Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable. The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too!

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Career

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. You will find strategies including: <ul><li>How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.</li><li>Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress.</li><li>The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.</li><li>Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable.</li><li>The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too! </li></ul>

Darren Hardy is an American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect. 

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Life Has No Single Purpose, but Many

What People With a Success Mindset Do Instead of Follow Morning Routines

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6 Habits That Shift Your Paradigm and Upgrade Your Life

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