Sometimes our goals can feel pretty lofty. If they aren’t easy to attain, you could feel discouraged or—even worse—you could be tempted to put things off until “tomorrow”! After all, which is easier: simply daydreaming about the future or outlining an actual business plan and setting things into motion?
For those of us who are intimidated by stepping into unknown territory, we recommend BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. By breaking your goals down into small steps, you can take on as little as one action step a day. What’s more, there are plenty of ways to motivate yourself and turn those small steps into habits. With time these tiny actions will accumulate and add up to big changes.
Here is the summary on Amazon:
“BJ Fogg is here to change your life—and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Based on twenty years of research and Fogg’s experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you’ll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures.
“This proven, step-by-step guide will help you design habits and make them stick through positive emotion and celebrating small successes. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve—by starting small.”
