2. Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2
Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg
Author: Gretchen Rubin
Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Happiness
Info: 320 pages, published March 17, 2015
Format: Book
Summary
Creating positive habits is a key to leading a happy life. Habits “are the invisible architecture of daily life,” and “if we change our habits, we change our lives.” In Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin help you identify your habits personality type (I’m an Upholder) and then shows you how you to create positive habits that will work for your type.
Quotes
“The desire to start something at the “right” time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.”
“The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.”
“In the chaos of everyday life, it’s easy to lose sight of what really matters, and I can use my habits to make sure that my life reflects my values.”
“I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.”
“With habits, we don’t make decisions, we don’t use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do—or that we don’t want to do.”
“Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control.”
“The most important step is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don’t get it perfect, get it going. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Nothing is more exhausting than the task that’s never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing.”
“What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while.” That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.”