A book that I enjoyed recently A few weeks ago, I wrote about a few lessons that I learnt from the first half of Gretchen Rubin’s Better than Before. Here are a few more: Main points with my thoughts in Italics: Spend time getting your foundation habits right first. Foundation habits are habits that help us sleep, move, eat/ drink right or unclutter.
This has been an awesome recommendation for me as well. I listened to the audiobook and printed out a habit tracker and have stuck with it for almost 40 days now. Feels amazing and also flagged some of the habits that are way harder for me to stick to so I’m trying to change tactics around those ones and try again.
One thing I’ve accepted I have to abstain completely from is having sweets in the house. CANNOT, WILL NOT moderate. I can literally have sweets every single day so I don’t buy them for the house at all.
I really enjoyed reading this. I used to follow a very strictly timed routine, and now that illness and some pretty big life changes have messed with my routine, it’s just been hard to stick to anything. I’ll try the anchoring technique e.g. scheduling my daily walk just before sitting down to dinner.
This has been an awesome recommendation for me as well. I listened to the audiobook and printed out a habit tracker and have stuck with it for almost 40 days now. Feels amazing and also flagged some of the habits that are way harder for me to stick to so I’m trying to change tactics around those ones and try again.
One thing I’ve accepted I have to abstain completely from is having sweets in the house. CANNOT, WILL NOT moderate. I can literally have sweets every single day so I don’t buy them for the house at all.
Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed reading this. I used to follow a very strictly timed routine, and now that illness and some pretty big life changes have messed with my routine, it’s just been hard to stick to anything. I’ll try the anchoring technique e.g. scheduling my daily walk just before sitting down to dinner.