Habit is a behavior that is repeated often enough to become automatic. Why are habits important? The purpose of habit is to solve life's problems with as little energy as possible. James Clear in his book Atomic Habits divided 4 ways to build good habits.<ol><li>Make it visible</li><li>Make it interesting</li><li>Make it easy</li><li>Make it satisfying</li></ol>

4 Ways To Build Good Habits By James Clear

The process of behavior change always begins with awareness. Pointing and Calling is a strategy to increase our awareness from subconscious habits to conscious level by announcing the actions we take. In his book, James Clear gives an example to write a list of daily habits that we do and then put an x, =, - on the activity.x : for good habits= : for neutral habits- : for bad habits

1. Make It Visible

If you want to increase chance of behavior changes, you need to make it interesting. The purpose is to learn how to make the habits irresistible by connecting the habits that you want to build with your current habits. The formula is:<ul><li>After I [current habits], I will [habit you need]</li></ul>Or<ul><li>After I [habit you need] I will [current habit]</li></ul> For example:If you want to watch youtube video but you need to call your parent.<ol><li>After I watch this video, I will call my parent; or</li><li>After I call call my parent, I will watch this video</li></ol>

2. Make It Interesting

Human behavior follows the law of "as little effort as possible". We naturally more likely to choose option that demands least amount of work. To build habits we need to decrease the obstacle that related to good habit. The less obstacle, the easier you build your habit. For example:If you want to eat healthier, prepare your fruits on the weekend, put it in the container and place it on your kitchen counter where it is accessible for you to grab some fruit.

3. Make It Easy

We more likely to repeat our behavior if it satisfying. Human brain develop to prioritize immediate reward than delayed reward. Therefore, if you want your habit stick, you need to feel the immediate success, even if it's a small success.For example:If you succeed exercising 5 times a week, the reward you give is a massage that is considered luxurious and beneficial for body care.

4. Make It Satisfying 

Habits are compound interest in self-improvement. Atomic Habits by James Clear describes 4 ways to build good habits and break bad habits. One of the best book for self-improvement

James Clear presents strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that help lead to an improved life.

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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

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Don't spend everything you earn now, this may seem obvious, but it was discovered in 2020 that the average millennial was spending 2% more per month than they earned. Because of this, it's critical to track your expenses and create a budget

1. Don't blow all your money

Invest the money and I started bringing it up because it applies to a lot of people who don't feel comfortable enough to invest so they just keep it in cash instead. The sad truth is that when you factor in inflation, your money actually loses buying power every single year that it's not invested

2. Not to hold a large sum of money in cash

This is the worst misuse of money ever sure I'll just put it on my credit card I'm never going to pay it back

3. Keep your credit card balance as low as possible

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

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What's up, it's @hackedongrowth  here, so let's be honest with ourselves: we all want to do better with our money, whether it's generating more money or building our wealth; it's all about the incremental changes we make along the path, and most people, sadly, will not follow these very basic five steps. 

What’s up, it’s here, so let’s be honest with ourselves: we all want to do better with our money, whether it’s generating more money or building our wealth; it’s all about the incremental changes we…

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Forming a new habit can be challenging because it’s easier to go back to what you’re comfortable with. Your ability to be consistent requires self-control, which means you don’t allow yourself to get off track while staying focused on incremental improvement. This will help you develop the discipline required to keep going.

1. Develops discipline and self-control

The level of trust you have with yourself shows up in the level of trust others have with you. Being consistent will help build momentum. This means you’ll also feel good about what you’re working towards.

2. Builds a higher level of trust

Consistency will lead to progress , which can speed up the achievement of what you want. This will build your self-confidence, which will help you set bigger and more challenging goals.

3. ast track your improvement

Your results will reveal if you’re consistent or not. If you know you’re not on track, you can hold yourself accountable . This means you can adjust your actions or behaviours and keep progressing towards what you want.

4. reate accountability

Small actions carried out repeatedly will amount to big results over time. When you do something for a long period, you will differentiate yourself from those who aren’t consistent. This can help you attract new opportunities that may not have been possible if you hadn’t been consistent.

5. elp you stand out or be noticed.

When you know why consistency is an important habit to have, you can use it to your advantage.

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5 Reasons Why Consistency is an Important Habit 

Sometimes the most meaningful conversations come at surprising times: with someone you meet on a train and never see again, with a friend of a friend who you’ve only just met. Conversely, conversations with our closest friends and family can often be difficult, and we sometimes fail to share our deepest thoughts and feelings with those we love the most.

The Art of Conversation

A <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-88608-001">new paper</a>, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, finds that we seriously benefit from these deep conversations with strangers. But, despite this, we sometimes remain reluctant to engage in them, overestimating their awkwardness and underplaying their advantages even when we enjoy them more.

With Strangers

In the first study, participants read that they would be randomly paired with another person, who they would discuss several questions with. Topics included things in life they felt grateful about and times they had cried in front of another person. They then estimated how much they would be interested in the other person and how interested the other would be in them, how awkward they would feel during the conversation, and how strong a bond they would feel towards them. After having the conversation, they rated their actual experience of the conversation using these same metrics.

Topics of Conversation

The results showed that participants had underestimated how interested they would be in the other person — and how interested that person was in them. They also underestimated how connected they would feel with their partner, and overestimated how awkward the conversation would be.

Connection

A second study replicated the first — only this time, half of the pairs of participants had shallow conversations about TV, lifestyles, and haircuts while half responded to the meaningful questions. Again, participants overestimated how awkward the conversation would be and underestimated how connected they would feel. Those who answered deep questions overestimated the awkwardness significantly more than those who had shallow conversations — and ultimately felt more connected than pairings in the shallow condition.

Deep Questions

A follow-up study, in which participants picked their own deep questions to discuss, replicated these findings.In a fourth study, participants reported how much they thought they would care about their partner and vice versa before speaking to them on either shallow or deep topics. Participants expected to care more about their own responses than their partner would, particularly in the deep condition, though this wasn’t the case: across both conditions, conversational partners cared more about answers to both shallow and deep questions than was anticipated.

Importance of Responses

In a later study, participants engaged in both shallow and deep conversations, reporting their expectations and responses as in previous studies. And despite expecting to prefer the shallow conversation to the deep one, participants actually preferred the deep one, again significantly underestimating how much they would enjoy it. Participants were also better at anticipating how conversations with loved ones would go versus strangers, suggesting we “miscalibrate” how much people we don’t know are interested in our lives.

"Miscalibration"

Over the course of seven studies, the results demonstrated that people enjoy deep conversations despite not expecting to. Deep conversations made participants feel more connected to their conversational partners, and were significantly less awkward than anticipated.

Seven Studies

This could prevent us from having conversations with all kinds of benefits — because we expect deep conversations with strangers to be painful, and because we expect strangers not to care, we may be avoiding them altogether. But in fact, this study suggests that we care deeply about one another. Remembering this fact, particularly after a year and a half where many of us have been physically alienated from one another, could ultimately lead to better, or at least unexpected, conversations.

Physical Alienation

By Emily Reynolds. We overestimate the awkwardness of deep conversations with strangers — and underplay their advantages.

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We Enjoy Deep Conversations With Strangers Much More Than We Expect To

Notice that moment of internal resistance. It could come as irritation, impatience, or some other internal feeling of: Hey, I don’t like that.

Step 1: I Don’t Like It

The next step is to tune into that internal resistance and get curious. Ask yourself: What’s happening here? Why am I upset? And, most importantly: What do I want to be different?

Step 2: What Do I Want?

It’s OK to feel upset inside, but if you charge at them with accusations and hostility, the most natural reaction in the world is going to be defensiveness and fighting back. Instead, you can simply point out what you noticed to enter the conversation. The purpose is to bring up the challenging topic directly in a curious and neutral way. Using the phrase “I notice” removes an accusatory tone and allows the other person to be more receptive.

Step 3: I Noticed…

As you are exploring the situation with the other person, slow down and pay attention. As you listen, reflect on what you are hearing to make sure you understand it clearly.

Step 4: Reflect

It's essential to share the impact of their behavior on you, and your reactions. Tell the other person what happens inside of you when they do X, Y, or Z. Just like with the previous steps, avoid using blaming language that makes the other person bad or wrong.

Step 5: Impact

Once you’ve stated the impact, you then move on to sharing what you actually want. Since you discovered this in Step 2, it will be a breeze to simply share it out loud.

Step 6: Desire

After stating what you want, follow up with questions to see if that works for them. This fully engages them in deciding a solution so they will take ownership and feel inspired to follow the new plan.

Step 7: Powerful Agreement

7 Steps of Handling Difficult Conversations

Everyone wants you to forget you're gonna die. Because if they convince you that, you'll waste time doing what they want you to do

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Believe you can, and you're halfway there.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time “A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.”—Time This classic biography is the story of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.” The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858–1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his “spare hours” he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called “that damned cowboy” was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin’s bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR’s pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. “It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves,” the author writes, “and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people.”

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of Modern Library’s 100 best nonfiction books of all time • One of Esquire’s 50 best biographies of all time “A towering biography . . . a brilliant chronicle.”—Time This classic biography is the story of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.” The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858–1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his “spare hours” he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called “that damned cowboy” was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin’s bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR’s pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. “It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves,” the author writes, “and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people.”

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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The first and foremost important thing is that you should love what you are going to talk about.

1. Love Your Subject

What ever your topic is, start doing the research and make some notes. 3. 3

2. Make Notes About Your Topic

The most crucial step of public speaking is that you are confident enough to stand in front of those people.

3. Show Them Confidence

It's ok to be nervous before giving the public speaking🗣. But you should not let other people know that you are not confident

4. It's Ok To Be Nervous

When you are doing the preparation then ask for the help, what ever you get from.

5. Ask For Help From Others

Always remember where are you going to speak. You audience is the most important aspects of your speech.

6. Focus On Your Audience

When you are learning public speaking skill, you have to be persistent and practice daily. And when ever you comes to a chance to speak,always take it.

7. Practice Daily

When you are talking in in front of a group of people, always try to be in light mood, crack some jokes.

8. Keep It In A Light Mood

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18 Tips for Improving Your Public Speaking Skills

Whether it’s a succinct declarative statement in an email or a complex argument in a report, your writing has the potential to light up the neural circuitry of your readers’ brains.Good writing gets the reader’s dopa­mine flowing in the area of the brain known as the reward circuit. Just like good food or a hug, well-­executed writing makes us feel pleasure, which makes us want to keep reading.The magic happens when your writing has one or more of these characteristics: It’s simple, specific, surprising, stirring, seductive, smart, social, or story-­driven.

Good writing gets the reader’s dopa­mine flowing

Simplicity increases what scientists call the brain’s “processing fluency.” Short sentences, familiar words, and clean syntax ensure that the reader doesn’t have to exert too much brainpower to understand your meaning.By contrast, studies have shown that sentences with clauses nested in the middle take longer to read and cause more comprehension mistakes. ﻿Cutting extraneous words and using the active voice are two ways to keep it simple. Another tactic is to drill down to what’s really salient and scrap tangential details.

Simplicity

Specifics awaken a swath of brain circuits. Think of “pelican” versus “bird.” Or “wipe” versus “clean.”  Our neurons actually “embody” what the words mean: When we hear more-specific ones, we “taste,” “feel,” and “see” traces of the real thing.Using more vivid, palpable language will reward your readers. Another specificity tactic is to give readers a memorable shorthand phrase to help them retain your message.

Specificity

Our brains are wired to make nonstop predictions, including guessing the next word in every line of text. If your writing confirms the readers’ guess, that’s OK, though possibly a yawner. Surprise can make your message stick, helping readers learn and retain information.

Surprise

Our brains process the emotional connotations of a word within 200 milliseconds of reading it—much faster than we understand its meaning. So when we read emotionally charged material, we reflexively react with feelings. Reason follows. We then combine the immediate feeling and subsequent thought to create meaning.﻿So when you write your next memo, consider injecting words that package feeling and thought together. Instead of saying “challenge the competition,” you might use “outwit rivals.” In lieu of “promote innovation,” try “prize ingenuity.” Metaphor often works even better.

Stirring Language

We’re wired to savor an­tic­ipation. One famous study showed that people are often happier planning a vacation than they are after taking one. Scientists call the reward “anticipatory utility.” You can build up the same sort of excitement when you structure your writing. Start a report with a question. Pose your customer problem as a conundrum. Position your product development work as solving a mystery. Put readers in a state of uncertainty so that you can then lead them to something better.

Seductiveness

Please the readers by giving them an “aha” moment:
<ul>
<li>Draw fresh distinctions. Ginni Rometty, formerly IBM’s CEO, offered one with this description of the future: “It will not be a world of man versus machine; it will be a world of man plus machine.”</li>
<li>Phrase a pragmatic message so that it also evokes an universal truth. The founder of Herman Miller, wrote: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.” That’s wisdom not just for business managers but for anyone in a guiding role.</li>
</ul>

Smart Thinking

Our brains are wired to crave human connection—even in what we read. We don’t want just to read about people, though—we want to understand what they’re thinking as quickly as possible.
<ul>
<li>One way to help readers connect with you and your writing is to reveal more traces of yourself in it. Think voice, world­view, vocabulary, wit, syntax, poetic rhythm, sensibilities.</li>
<li>Remember also to include the human angle in any topic you’re discussing.</li>
<li>Use the second person (“you”). This can be particularly helpful when you’re explaining technical or complicated material.</li>
</ul>

Social Content

Few things beat a good anecdote. Stories, even fragments of them, captivate extensive portions of readers’ brains in part because they combine many of the elements I’ve described already.When you incorporate stories into your communications, big payoffs can result. Research shows that people form favorable impressions of the pitches that have richer narratives, giving them higher marks for entrepreneur credibility and business legitimacy. They also are more willing to invest in the projects and share infor­mation about them. The implication: No stories, no great funding success.

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There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life. - Mary Rose McGeady

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