Going Through the Motions (The Secret of Successful Habit Building)

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In today’s post, Nick shares his thoughts on “going through the motions” and why it is the secret of successful habit building. “Why are you putting yourself through that? Are you nuts?” We had hardly sat down and ordered our drinks before my friend ushered his question with an incredulous look in his eyes. I … Read more

The Amazing Effect of Good Habits on Decreasing Stress

Stress and Habits

Stephen Guise has written multiple posts on this blog about his “mini habits” concept. Today he talks about interconnection of good habits and how they can help reduce stress.  To learn more, check out this book: Mini Habits: Smaller Habits. Bigger Results and his advanced course Mini Habit Mastery, which is offered at 50% off … Read more

8 Tools For Building Strong And Effective Habits

There are many apps and tools you can use to form powerful habits. This post goes over eight habit apps that can change your life for the better.

Good habits are hard to come by. We have to work to build them, sometimes for long, long periods of time. It’s effort which we – understandably – don’t like to deal with. It’s just so much easier to drift through life with the habits we already have (both the good AND the bad ones). … Read more

Why You Can’t Fight Bad Habits Directly

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Stephen Guise has written multiple posts on this blog about his “mini habits” concept. Today he talks about one reason many people struggle with their habit development — they focus on direct resistance– and why it can be a losing effort to fight bad habits directly.  To learn more about Stephen’s work, check out this … Read more

6 Limiting Beliefs about Email That Kill Your Inbox Productivity

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The following is a sample from my book Declutter your Inbox: 9 Proven Steps to Eliminate Email Overload.  If you’re struggling to keep up with stream of messages that flood your inbox, then I encourage you to check out this book and learn how to develop the habits that lead to “daily inbox zero.” Getting … Read more