About the Book Practical and easily-actionable advice from everyone’s favourite Habit CoachTM Ashdin Doctor. Life is rough in this modern age. Everyone seems to be chasing a deadline or, worse, staring a burnout in the face. If only there was a way to manage the high stress of our work and life better, and also up our productivity at the same time! But how? There are only twenty-four hours in a day, and surely we need to rest and recover too? What is the trick to getting stuff done while keeping anxiety at bay? Habit CoachTMAshdin Doctor has some no-nonsense coping strategies. His simple, fuss-free habits are easy to integrate into our daily lives. Each habit that he proposes—be it mindfulness, or tricks to improve time management—can be seamlessly added to our routines, providing a road map for transforming our attitude to work and productivity. Each chapter has, at its heart, exercises that put those ideas into practice. If you’ve been wondering how to unlock your productivity and stride confidently towards success, Small Actions, Big Results offers you easy strategies to achieve your goal.
About the Author Ashdin Doctor is The Habit CoachTM. He firmly believes that an awesome life starts with awesome habits. He hosts The Habit CoachTM podcast on IVM, which is a daily podcast that has over a thousand episodes. It is ranked among the top self-development podcasts in India. It covers a wide variety of topics, all designed to help the listener evolve through their daily habits.
I seldom read self-help books. Some I feel are condescending. Some are too sensational. Some repeat stuff that's already been told. Why did I read this one then? Because I found it really useful. Period.
This is my first book by Ashdin Doctor, popularly known as 'The Habit Coach'. So what's new here that's not available elsewhere? The author's first book was based on habits. This one is based on attention. He asks you to adopt 31 habits that will supercharge your life. At the end of every chapter is a kind of self-appraisal noting system and I found myself scribbling there: a thing I have never done. So yes, this book did speak to me.
He writes: 'Think of attention as money. If you wake up and have attention worth a thousand dollars, where do you end up spending it throughout the day? Is it spent on distractions like porn and TV? Is it spent on cunning? Is it spent on your loved ones, worrying and obsessing about them?'
Ashdin gives many practical lessons. In the beginning, he asks the reader to divide themselves into categories (worrier, fanatic etc). You can be a combo of any. Then he advises you to be like water: persistent but trying to find a path of least resistance.