Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project and she was a Mighty Summit attendee a few years back. Gretchen has a shiny brain — she’s globally curious, a voracious reader, knower of obscure and provable facts. Her most recent book on habits, Better Than Before, is the next best thing to sitting next to her at a dinner party.
The premise is that habits give you an autopilot option to help you through tough times, and preserve energy by lifting the burden of choices. The best parts of Better Than Before:
It’s helpful to begin with habits that most directly strengthen self control… We do well by tackling the habits hat help us to:
1. sleep
2. move
3 eat and drink right
4. unclutter
Counterintuitively, I often find it harder to make myself do something that I enjoy than something that I don’t enjoy… For some of us, it takes discipline to take pleasure.
Now is an unpopular time to take a first step.
The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn’t selfish.
We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.
VOCAB
inanition – lack of mental or spiritual vigor and enthusiasm
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