Getting Started with Habits

A Books & Bones; Motivational Book Club Episode

Our first "proper" episode of our new season is a Book Club Episode about the incredible book that is Atomic Habits by James Clear.

We're talking about getting started with habits the right way, as opposed to getting started and falling by the way side, or feeling like we have to rely on will power or discipline (see pages 60-64).

If you want to make changes in your life, you need to be casting votes for yourself, grasping at every piece of evidence that you can do the thing, or become “the person that".

He calls the human brain a "prediction machine", you are wired to notice what's important, sort through details, highlighting cues and cataloging that information for future use. "We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking."

This means we can all stop interfering!

These are powerful pages in a book that is so packed with actionable information you might not know where to start taking it into your life - which would be a shame.

If you only use the 4 steps to establish yourself a new habit each month this year, you will be living a different life very quickly.

James Clear is driven by a passion for improving your quality of life with very small changes. Coach Sall created a video for the book club all about this theme within the book, you can watch it here.