The book Atomic Habits from James Clear is a great book for those looking to improve their life/work/whatever outcomes. Looking to increase your good habits or decrease your bad ones? Both here.
These Curious Pursuit implementation resources can help you put the ideas in the book into practice.
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a practical guide to building better habits and breaking bad ones by focusing on small, consistent changes. Clear argues that success is the result of systems, not goals, and that identity-based habits—changing who you believe you are—create lasting transformation. The book introduces the Four Laws of Behavior Change: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying. Through compelling stories and research-backed insights, Clear shows how tiny habits compound over time, leading to remarkable results. The core message: small daily improvements lead to massive long-term growth. Effort – Benefit Analysis …
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Willpower, by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney, is a guide to understanding and boosting your self-control. The book seeks to debunk myths about willpower being a fixed trait and instead reveals it as a resource that gets depleted with use. It also shows how to replenish it through strategies like prioritizing sleep, mindful eating, and building healthy habits. By understanding how willpower works and implementing the book’s tips, you can better prepare yourself to achieve goals, make better decisions, and live a more fulfilling life. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the Power of Full Engagement Book … Scope: Personal Level …
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“The Power of Full Engagement” by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz argues that the key to high performance and personal fulfillment lies in managing your energy, not just your time. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the Power of Full Engagement Book … Scope: Personal Level of Effort: Daily/Weekly/Monthly Habits Areas of Effect: Personal Effectiveness, Fitness Instead of focusing on putting in long hours, the book teaches readers how to cultivate four essential dimensions of energy: By optimizing these four energy dimensions, individuals can achieve “full engagement,” a state of being where they are physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and …
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Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” isn’t simply a self-help book; it’s a full-bodied philosophy for living a principle-centered, character-driven life. Each habit builds upon the previous one, creating a framework for personal and professional success. It claims to be the distillation of anciently proven ideas on how to find success worth finding. It may be that but it’s also a modern way to frame both a more reliably product life. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the 7 Habits Book … Scope: Personal, Family, Friendships, Organization Level of Effort: Daily/Weekly/Monthly Habits Areas of Effect: Personal Effectiveness, Relationships, …
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One of the key ideas tied to Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is that of first figuring out what is most important to you. Ideas like making sure your ladder of success is leaning against the right wall are core to being “effective” as Covey sees it. One of the exercises designed to explore that is imagining you are at your own funeral and seeing who is there and what you desire them to say about you. One of the tools in the 7 Habits Book Tools implementation package helps you do just that. Download it for free …