In his book, The Happiness Advantage, happiness researcher Shawn Achor discusses how he wanted to make practicing guitar a daily habit. However, he encountered a problem, one that plagues everyone: He couldn’t motivate himself to do it. No matter how much he tried to motivate himself, his guitar remained in his cupboard. Achor recalls: He couldn’t […]
The Gap: The Surprising Truth About Freedom of Choice
A few months ago, my wife and I were visiting the UK. After arriving in Manchester, we checked into our hotel. But unbeknownst to me when I booked it, the hotel had a self-service check-in. No reception; just a few employees on hand to help if needed. I approached the check-in, typed in my booking […]
A Peek Inside My Evernote Commonplace Book
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 […]
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