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The Habit Factor: An Innovative Method to Align Habits with Goals to Achieve Success
At the intersection of Science, Philosophy, Personal Achievement & Spirituality lies The Habit Factor®, an innovative and proven methodology to realize meaningful and significant goals helping you to create your ideal future -- your success. Everyone desires to achieve their goals and realize success, yet few do. The Habit Factor® encapsulates nearly 3,000 years of philosophy and success literature to reveal the most elemental and profound truth governing all personal HABIT is the single-greatest determinant in a person's ability to realize a life of success and achievement. For the first time ever, The Habit Factor® reveals its proven step-by-step methodology -- a process that has received acclaim from top success coaches, personal trainers and PhD's around the world. This book takes the reader on a "mind-bending adventure of insight and application" to explore the deepest mysteries of habit. Questions never before asked, or answered, are tackled within these pages, and you are certain to come out the other side awakened, empowered and transformed. Very Special Foreword by Roz Savage the first woman to row across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2010
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July 10, 2012
I thought this book was great. Martin Grunburg provides a much more in depth look at the concept of habit than I have read anywhere else. He translates that broad perspective into practical application. Our lives are filled with habits, most of which we are not even aware of. I highly recommend The Habit Factor to anyone who wants to harness the power of their own habits in a more enlightened and purposeful way.
May 18, 2014
Enlightening!
I downloaded the app in hopes of developing better habits in my life. The instructions in the app mentioned this book, so I decided to give it a read. I wound up with much more than I anticipated.
At first, the principles this book teach seem to discuss rudimentary things that are easy to figure out. However, upon further reading I realized it answered some key questions for me that I had NOT figured out. Namely, it answered for me these burning questions: How do I actually apply the knowledge I've learned? How do I find purpose?
I struggle with self-discipline and motivation. I knew my habits were keeping me from being industrious, yet I didn't know how to change. I knew I wanted to be more "positive", but it seemed my pragmatism kept getting in the way. Now I have the key I need for success. This book has already changed my life by instilling the understanding I needed for hope, purpose, and action.
The book refers to templates that can be found on the website and to the aforementioned app. These can be obtained and used without the book. However, I strongly recommend reading the book as well. It may well change your life and destiny.
I downloaded the app in hopes of developing better habits in my life. The instructions in the app mentioned this book, so I decided to give it a read. I wound up with much more than I anticipated.
At first, the principles this book teach seem to discuss rudimentary things that are easy to figure out. However, upon further reading I realized it answered some key questions for me that I had NOT figured out. Namely, it answered for me these burning questions: How do I actually apply the knowledge I've learned? How do I find purpose?
I struggle with self-discipline and motivation. I knew my habits were keeping me from being industrious, yet I didn't know how to change. I knew I wanted to be more "positive", but it seemed my pragmatism kept getting in the way. Now I have the key I need for success. This book has already changed my life by instilling the understanding I needed for hope, purpose, and action.
The book refers to templates that can be found on the website and to the aforementioned app. These can be obtained and used without the book. However, I strongly recommend reading the book as well. It may well change your life and destiny.
April 13, 2012
I bought this book because I had downloaded the 'Habit Factor' app, and because I have come to realise the importance of building positive habits for achieving goals. The book was incredibly helpful - it talked about how most books about habits focus on negative habits and how to eliminate them, and that actually building positive habits is essential for making major changes to one's life. It talks about how habits work - how things move to the autopilot part of the brain. And then it gives very practical steps to forming positive habits. There was quite a lot of detail which I don't remember, so I intend to read it again.
February 24, 2013
Good book that brings a different approach to an old theme: achieving your goals.
June 6, 2013
As far as the content of this book goes... I'd give it 5 stars. It's got great content. However, I found the writing to be a bit confusing. I read extremely quickly & have a high reading level... yet I found myself needing to re-read phrases because they were just a bit awkward. Thus - 3 stars. It's a good follow up to the Charles Duhigg book, "The Power of Habit". (Which was better written by far. Of course, Duhigg is a journalist, so what else would you expect!)
This does cover some of the same territory as "The Power of Habit", but goes further in the descriptions of how to go about changing your habits - as well as how habits relate to goals. This book has less of the info on studies done and the pure science behind habits.
This does cover some of the same territory as "The Power of Habit", but goes further in the descriptions of how to go about changing your habits - as well as how habits relate to goals. This book has less of the info on studies done and the pure science behind habits.
October 31, 2012
A great book with lots of help and simple direction on how to go about creating success through habits. I bought the app first and then the book. I can truly say it has made me view the app differently, there are tips and more in the book you won't get from the app. Buy it it is a good investment.
March 4, 2011
The app gets 5 stars. It's by far the most valuable app I have and I use it every single day.
July 30, 2018
watch the TED talk instead.
October 21, 2014
Good book. Very good message. Amazing life lesson. A minute to learn, a lifetime to master! Understanding this, & practicing this in my work, as wel as personal life ... .
December 29, 2014
Much nonsense
October 17, 2012
EXCELLENT!!! A MUST READ FOR ALL.
June 3, 2013
Great book. Revelation. Gives u a great insight how ppl and societies are functioning.
July 8, 2022
It is rare that you get to meet a person who you instantly recognize as someone special. That was my experience with Martin Grunburg. I got to spend several days with Martin and some other great men in a boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean on a surf trip, so you really get to see first hand someone's demeanors and HABITS. During the trip I had no idea Martin was an author, all I knew was that my friend knew him fro a forum called EO, so I gathered he was a fairly accomplished business man. I recognized in Martin an inner calmness that was very attractive to me, and I got to witness his daily activities, even on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and I knew there was something special about him. There is a saying that goes "if you want what they have, do what they do". So when I learned about The Habit Factor, I immediately ordered it when I got home.
I loved the book, the principles and the multiple inspiring quotes. A lot of the things Martin talks about were not new to me, but they were told in different contexts. The idea of tracking was not new to me, but I wasn't doing it! So I immediately got to work on my self, my business and my loved ones applying the principles of The Habit Factor in order to continue to grow and achieve the life I want to keep and the life I want to achieve.
If you are like me, you are continuously looking for the next thing to make yourself better, your business better, your family better and your community better. This book will no doubt inspire you and give you a set of tools to help you on your personal road to success.
Thank you Martin for the great book. I hope we meet again on the road of life.
Eric
I loved the book, the principles and the multiple inspiring quotes. A lot of the things Martin talks about were not new to me, but they were told in different contexts. The idea of tracking was not new to me, but I wasn't doing it! So I immediately got to work on my self, my business and my loved ones applying the principles of The Habit Factor in order to continue to grow and achieve the life I want to keep and the life I want to achieve.
If you are like me, you are continuously looking for the next thing to make yourself better, your business better, your family better and your community better. This book will no doubt inspire you and give you a set of tools to help you on your personal road to success.
Thank you Martin for the great book. I hope we meet again on the road of life.
Eric
December 18, 2017
Loved this book and the idea of working on habits to acheive goals
October 18, 2015
This is the most in depth and comprehensive and practically useful writings on habit that I have read. Most importantly it helps the reader to develop life changing habits to improve his/her life in an accessible and even fun way. This writer is gifted and this book is a gift to all who read it.
April 5, 2015
Great book. Ive read several books about Habits, this is by far the best.
Make sure you download the app too :)
Make sure you download the app too :)
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