Atomic habits summary
It's true that everyone wishes to be successful but were unsure where to begin. It actually starts when we take small steps each day. If you wish to be a successful artist then being consistent in painting every day is important. It doesn't mean you need to spend hours but just dedicating some time every day will help us to achieve our goal.
When these tiny changes happen in our everyday life, there will be changes in our behaviour. Forming a habit is a bit challenging but connecting a new habit to the existing one will be easy to follow. Eg. Keeping in mind drinking water right after brushing teeth.
It's more like opportunity cost, when two options are given, we need to select a choice that is favourable to our decision, so our working process would help us reach the destination. For instance, if you have already set your decision to be consistent in painting then you need to choose painting over watching a movie. That doesn't need to be all the time but at least for some time. So in simple terms, we need to stick to the decision and follow the schedule that we make.
James clear has broken down the process of forming a habit into four steps ie. we need to make the habits obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
It's significant to determine whether the habit is good or bad. To form good habits, we gonna fix the target in mind and follow it. Eg: I'm an amateur who wishes to be an artist. Then I need to start an art account and follow art pages, so I'll get inspired from other artists, I'll watch their videos, pictures, also I'll need to talk with other artists be it in clubhouse, form groups etc. In this way, I can make my goal of becoming an artist.
Changing the environment with supportive, optimistic people becomes prior as it says who we are and where we are up to land. If you wanna break a bad habit, then stop the thing that makes you choose it. Eg: If you wanna quit smoking but your friend seeks company, avoiding such meetups would be in one's favour to escape bad habits.
Sometimes thinking about meeting your favourite person makes you more happy and excited than spending time with them, in the same way, waking up with the thought of thinking about your work will help you in achieving your dreams. To do that, find out the work you are passionate about. Taking small steps towards our passion will gradually improve and master our skills also if we get satisfied over doing the task then that satisfying feel would provoke us to follow the routine every day.
As everyone suggested me to read this book, I listening to the audiobook in audible. I found this self-help book to be much helpful in forming new habits and breaking bad habits. I'd recommend this book to the ones who are losing their focus, hope, procrastinating over this pandemic. ;)
