Find Good Habits: A Workbook for Daily Growth

Wellness Workbooks #3

by Jaime Zuckerman

With wise advice and helpful exercises from psychologist Dr. Jaime Zuckerman, this beautifully designed, interactive workbook will help you find a path toward a calmer, happier daily life.

Changing your habits, or creating new ones, is both incredibly rewarding and incredibly challenging. This straightforward, insightful workbook will guide you through four key steps to making a permanent change to your habits:
Identify the change you want to make
Set yourself up to succeed
Get through the first four weeks
Maintain a habit for the long haul
With a total of 50 exercises, you’ll find all the tools you need to successfully change your habits, including visualizations to help with goal setting, steps to set up accountability systems, and simple trackers to help you visualize your progress. The workbook’s engaging, colorful art and motivational messages make it a fun, accessible tool for self-improvement.

The Wellness Workbooks series from Wellfleet Press offers guidance on a wide range of self-help and mental health topics. Each book presents a thoughtful, evidence-based collection of straightforward exercises in an accessible, enjoyable format that will keep you engaged and inspired. With a distinctive design and full-color illustrations throughout, these workbooks deliver a practical path to personal growth in a beautiful package.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

160 pages, Paperback

Published August 23, 2022

Reviews

[Reading_ Tamishly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely need this workbook!

It's so concise yet so helpful. I find the contents so well organised and fit for anyone who wants to develop some good habits.

Everything is so calming about this workbook. I love the cover. I love how the chapters are divided. This workbook has practical, easy exercises that would help you to recognise your working pattern, have a good idea about your behaviour and allign them in your routine.

A must have to help you organise, plan and staying calm in this chaotic world.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group - Wellfleet Press, for the advance reading copy.

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Find Good Habits is a selfhelp workbook for daily growth and the inside of the book is as calming and soothing as the cover! This book is perfect for anyone who reflects on the way they do and go about things and is a guide to helping you make any changes you're needing.
Divided into four sections we learn how to identify your patterns and habits, what's helpful and hurtful to you, changing unhealthy patterns and habits and how to maintain changes. These a great selection of prompts and exercises to help you as you work through the book and some will probably be more helpful to some than others. There are also mindfulness activities/lessons to try too. There is some space in the book to record your thoughts and responses to the activities and prompts which is always a useful resource for me as I enjoy looking back to reflect on things.

[joyce w. laudon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of people make New Year’s resolutions. I still find myself thinking about ways I might want to change when each September rolls around. It is ingrained in me to think of the start of a new school year as a time for new (and better?) beginnings. Whether or not that is true for you, this book by a psychologist is a helpful one for anytime that a person wants to consider how they do things and when they decide to make a change.

This title is divided into four big sections. These include Identifying Your Patterns and Habits; Healthy or Hurtful?; Changing Unhealthy Habits and Patters; and Maintenance Stage. The sections follow the progression of work that readers will be invited to complete. In addition the book included references and resources.

This book is attractive in appearance and full of things to think about and exercises and prompts that invite thoughtful investigation. It comes from the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) perspective. Both of these are evidence based systems of treatment. Lessons from mindfulness are also here.

The book’s format is that of a workbook. There is space to record responses to the prompts. This also offers the reader a resource upon which they can look back.

Those looking for some guided self-help may well want to take a look at this resource. It looks full of ways to reflect and live life in a way that one wishes.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing Group-Wellfleet Press and NetGalley for this title. All opinions are my own.

[Alanna-Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another absolutely wonderful and STUNNING journal/workbook/workshop from Quarto Publishing (I absolutely love the layout & artwork in this series)!

Here, author Jaime Zuckerman deftly instructs readers how to identify current patterns, create habits and goals that fit personal goals, and then stick to them! I would say that if you really dig into this workbook, it could actually change the way that you live your life! It's that outstanding - really.

For context, I have been overseeing and mentoring an online, international productivity and habit building group for several years. There are some really amazing books out there on habits and the science behind making them stick .... but once you finish those reads, you are on your own for the implementation part. This workbook/journal/workshop from Dr Zuckerman contains amazing exercises, journal prompts, trackers, emotional support and everything else we need to work through the (often arduous) task of changing how we live our daily lives.

Now that I have read this workbook from cover to cover (in order to supply my honest review), I am absolutely going back to do every single one of these exercises and prompts and ideas in order to successfully create and maintain some habits and goals that I have personally been struggling with this year.

WHAT I LOVED ABOUT THIS BOOK:
• Beautifully put together. Lovely layout.
• Succinctly outlines how to become aware of personal patterns, how to create habits and goals that embrace personal values, and how to stick to these new/modified habits once begun - including many different exercises and ways to deal with it and make it easier, in one accessible workbook.
• Each section is short, concise and to the point.
• All exercises given are simple and easy to follow, and I honestly think can affect real change in a reader’s life.
• The journalling questions are wonderful prompts to get you really thinking (though, wordy people like me definitely won't have enough room to actually write full responses within the book itself, and will need a separate journal).
• It is very apparent that the author has extensive experience coaching clients through these lifestyle changes.
• I LOVE the overall formatting of this workbook: (1) identifying your patterns and habits, (2) helpful or hurtful?, (3) changing unhealthy habits and patterns, and (4) maintenance stage.

WHAT I REALLY DIDN’T LIKE:
• I really wish that there was more room to write in the actual workbook (I will absolutely need a separate journal to complete all of the prompts.
• The author over-used the example of someone being a people-pleaser. I would have liked to see more variation in the examples so that diverse people could feel seen.

CONCLUSION:
There is a lot of very valuable information in this workbook - potentially life-changing if a reader dives in deeply. I would say that if you are looking for the "how" that comes after deciding to change your habits for the better, you will likely get a lot out of this book.

I would love to thank the author Jaime Zuckerman, Quarto Publishing Group - Wellfleet Press, and NetGalley for an advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Alicia Bayer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This will be a great journal for people who really like prompts and journaling for self growth. It is in an attractive yellow and orange layout and has lots of exercises like doing belly breathing and being mindful every day and writing down what you notice.

It seems geared towards people who want to make personal growth rather than what I hoped for, which was just a workbook to help me work on getting better at habits related to housework, my books, and homeschooling. I juggle a lot of things and am absolutely scatterbrained. I am always looking for ways to ingrain more routines as rote since they just don’t come naturally to me. I have no problem with personal growth things like setting boundaries and being mindful, which is what this is focused on. I just want to figure out how to make things into habits that I’ll actually automatically do. That’s not this book but it’s great for what it does do if that’s what you’re after.

I read a temporary digital arc of this book for review.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this ARC! I enjoyed this book a lot. The exercises were structured well and I felt like the prompts were engaging and helpful. I do wish there was more room, however, but I understand that this workbook is meant to guide and a journal would be better. I do wish that some of the colors in the pages were a little easier to read/understand. The yellow background in the pages made some of the text hard to read and it could be an issue for visually impaired readers. The structure of this book was incredibly helpful and I think this book will be helpful to a lot of people.

[Kate Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third workbook from Zuckerman that I have read and gone through.
They are just brilliant.
Perfectly laid out, excellent journal prompts and things to think about.
Really enjoyed this.