Better Than Before แค่ปรับ ก็เปลี่ยน

Better Than Before #1.5

by Gretchen Rubin, น้ำฝน แสงเป๋า (Translator), อรุโณทัย เขตหาญ (Translator)

Part resource, part tool, part keepsake, this companion journal to Gretchen Rubin’s New York Times bestselling book Better Than Before will guide you through the important changes in your life.
 
Habits are the key to all our successes and challenges in life, and there is no better way to change your habits than to track them. Better Than Before: A Day-by-Day Journal provides you with a year's worth of writing prompts that help you identify habits you’d like to change and strengthen habits you wish to adopt, as well as helpful quizzes and eye-opening tips on habit formation. Each weekly entry also features “habit-tracker” to mark down specific goals both big and small. As the pages fill, you’ll discover your own unique path—a practical, concrete framework that helps you to understand your habits and to change them for good.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development

368 pages

First published October 6, 2015

About the author

Out now: "Secrets of Adulthood"
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity, and happiness. Order your copy of "Secrets of Adulthood" today.

Author Bio
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. 

She’s the author of many New York Times bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, Life in Five Senses, and Secrets of Adulthood, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her next book Secrets of Adulthood comes out April 2025.

She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness projects.

She has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy!

Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family.

Reviews

[Alyssa Mayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book and picked up a lot of ideas on how to approach not just my own habits, but how to help others improve their habits. I really liked how the author broke down each section into smaller bite-sized chunks. It gives a reader the ability to really stop and think about whether they have a particular trait or not. She also goes into ideas for stopping or starting those particular traits.

My only issue with the book was how generalized the book was. Honestly, a book that was as specific on this topic would have been humongous, and the author seems to have rectified that issue by starting an app and posting blogs to further explore the subject.

All-in-all, I would highly recommend to anyone looking to break or form new habits, or just understand more of why people make the choices they do.

[Christine Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting ideas on how our habits define our character and personality. This book was a gentle reminder that I am the only one who can make me happy. I highly recommend this to anyone who is seeking life hacks to keep them motivated and moving toward their ultimate bliss.

[Karrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of practical changes to make in your life to i process quality and happiness, would recommend to anyone trying to make a big change or improvement in their life.

[Yunika Lucianna Manihuruk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting ideas on how our habits define our character and personality. This book was a gentle reminder that I am the only one who can make me happy.

[Pamela J · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love to journal, but was not loving this one.

[Esra · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am happy that I read it, but in many parts it was very boring

[Ashish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent nuggets on how to affect favourable changes in your life.

[Ecem · Rating 2 out of 5]

sırf burada diye ekledim yoksa kendisi bir kitap değil, konsept günlük. her gün bir şey yapmam gerektiği konusunda bana hatırlatıcı görevi gördü en azından.

[waitwaittellme · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some interesting ideas here, but it wasn't nearly as good as the happiness project. It was repetitive at times, and a lot of it re-hashed advice that you can read in many self-help style books.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book on forming new habits. It was a little preachy sometimes but all in all very illuminating to me

[Adriana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read to help you form better habits

[Cecilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I read this book, it got me thinking of all the days and times that I wasted not enriching my skills and talents. Clearly this book explained to me how habits are formed and how it can be change into something more beneficial to me. I have been reading this book for a long time, not finishing but savoring every lesson I've read in this book. I am grateful to the author for widening my knowledge in discovering how to defeat the thief of time and accomplish things effortless. Thank you :)

I am still reading this book.. a little more push and I will be able to finish this!