If you’re an avid reader, you’ve probably been there… You’re reading a book, making notes and highlighting passages that are meaningful to you, and you say to yourself, “There are so many great ideas in this book. I’ll write up my notes when I finish.” But for one reason or another—you never get round to […]
The Easy Thing Versus The Right Thing: Which Do You Choose?
One of the most common, yet highly unrecognized sticking points in behavior change is isolating incidents. In his book, The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod writes, We mistakenly assume that each choice we make, and each individual action we make, is only affecting that particular moment, or circumstance. [1] But it isn’t. The workout we skip. The […]
How to Break a Bad Habit (and Replace It with a Better One)
During the writing process of his New York Times best-selling book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg (ironically) developed a habit of his own (and a bad one at that): going to the canteen every day and buying a chocolate chip cookie. Duhigg humorously recounts, in his book of the same name, how this bad […]
Words Into Works #041 | The Rule of Five
In 1993, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen had a goal: to get their book Chicken Soup for the Soul to the top of The New York Times bestseller’s list. They sought out the advice of 15 best-selling authors, but as helpful as their advice was, Canfield and Hansen felt overwhelmed with information. In his book […]
The Power of Yet: Do You Believe You Can Improve?
A young Glenn Whitman was standing in his driveway, trying to perfect his slapshot: the hardest shot one can perform in ice hockey. Like most boys who aspire to play professionally, Whitman would spend hours practicing the maneuver, but no matter how hard he tried, he failed to see any improvement. Annoyed by his apparent […]
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