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How to Build Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
Atomic plan to build your new habits
Here is my summary on building sustainable habits based on the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Atomic Habit is an excellent approach to changing bad habits and adopting healthy ones, demonstrating how modest and tiny daily routines add up to compound cycles over time.
Whenever we would like some change in life, almost everyone recommends significant changes which are not sustainable. Let me be clear here they are not even doable at the beginning. It’s tough to develop solid reasons to change a bad habit to a good one. After reading this book, Atomic Habits by James Clear, I implemented tiny changes in my daily routines. Here I am going to share what I learned from the book.
Power of 1 % rule — Why do tiny habits make a big difference?
We tend to believe that colossal accomplishment necessitates massive action. However, even if we improve by 1% each day, we will be 37 times better by the end of the year, and conversely, if we fall by 1% per day, we will reach zero — The Power Of Compounding.
When we don’t see the consequences of our efforts, we tend to fall back into old habits, but to foresee where we’ll end up, we need to grasp how our everyday decisions will compound ten to twenty years down the road.
Don’t worry about goals; instead, focus on systems.
Like James says in the book, “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.” I think it’s pretty common that we do not see the tiny changes initially; at least that’s the case with me, but we will see tremendous results if we keep doing it.
For example, I can share the impact of these tiny bad or good habits. If we start eating fast-food or bad food each day and do not exercise, we can easily see the results within a few weeks or months. On the other hand, if we start eating healthy food and exercising 3–4 times a week, we will see positive results. As James says in the book, the tiny good/bad habits accumulate at the…
