{"id":34702,"date":"2019-11-19T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34702"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:37:41","slug":"bookfreak26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bookfreak26\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #26: Building Positive Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is a weekly newsletter with cognitive tools you can use to improve the quality of your life.<\/p>\n<p><em>In this issue, advice from Gretchen Rubin\u2019s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33oSAvF\">Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fail small, not big<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cInstead of feeling that you\u2019ve blown the day and thinking, \u2018I\u2019ll get back on track tomorrow,\u2019 try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a good habit to stick, make it convenient<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTo a truly remarkable extent, we\u2019re more likely to do something if it\u2019s convenient, and less likely if it\u2019s not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Build a foundation to develop positive habits<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cFrom my observation, habits in four areas do most to boost feelings of self-control, and in this way strengthen the foundation of all our habits. We do well to begin by tackling the habits that help us to: 1. sleep 2. move 3. eat and drink right 4. unclutter\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pair activities<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIn the Strategy of Pairing, I couple two activities, one that I need or want to do, and one that I don\u2019t particularly want to do, to get myself to accomplish them both. It\u2019s not a reward, it\u2019s not a treat, it\u2019s just a pairing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Positive Habits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34704,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34702\/revisions\/34704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}