Building habits will change your life: 3 lessons from “Atomic Habits” to build habits and stick with them.

Want to skyrocket your productivity and conquer your goals?

Here are the top 3 takeaways on habit building from the NYT bestseller "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. 🔥💪📚

Habits are one of the most impactful factors that can alter your life.

Building habits can help you succeed in your personal and professional lives and achieve most of your goals. "Atomic Habits" by James Clear is one of the most well-known books on habit-building.

I read it and summarized the top three points so you can save time and begin habit-building immediately.

Small changes will have a big impact.

Small, consistent behavioral changes will have a large impact over time.

Concentrate on developing small (atomic) habits. They are small, specific, and easily incorporated into daily routines, and they will gradually build momentum to help you achieve your goals. Once you've mastered the small habits and are "in motion," you can combine them with others to achieve larger goals.

Building momentum is crucial. You need to walk in order to reach the goal line.

Habits are formed by the cue, craving, response, and reward cycle:

All habits are enabled by a single loop:

1. A cue that causes a behavior to occur
2. A craving caused by the cue (a desire to fulfill a specific need)
3. A reaction to satiate that desire (the actual habit)
4. The reward (the satisfaction of fulfilling that craving)

Understanding this loop is essential for unlocking your habit-building potential.

You can use this loop to either incentivize "good" or de-incentivize "bad" habits.

Incentivize good habits by placing more cues in your environment. For example, pack your gym bag before bed, so it's the first thing you see in the morning. Preparing your environment the right way will give you more cues that trigger your "good" habits.

Use the same strategy to discourage bad behavior by hiding cues that cause a craving you don't like. If you want to eat fewer snacks, avoid leaving the cookie jar on the table. 

Create an environment that makes it easy to stick to your habits.

Focus on systems rather than goals.

Targeting a goal will make it more challenging to achieve.

Instead, concentrate on creating a system that supports your goal. A key concept here is to become the ideal person who achieves your goals.

Instead of becoming healthy, strive to become a person who makes healthy choices. This method is also useful when making decisions. Consider what the person you want to be would do.

By consistently doing, what your ideal person would do, you will eventually become that person.