Yesterday I said I would discuss the next two foundations, Move and Eat and Drink right, explored by Gretchen Rubin, but I've changed my mind. I'm going to focus only on Move because it's a topic I've wanted to talk about for some time.
When…
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The focus today is the Foundation for habits or what Gretchen Rubin refers to as the Pillars of Habits. As both an organizer coach and a professional organizer, I really connected with the four pillars she proposes:
Sleep
Move
Eat and drink right
Unclutter (especially this one)
Rubin chose these four as the foundation from the perspective that "it's…
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Different Solutions for Different People is the next focus in Better Than Before.
One of Gretchen Rubin's other books is The Happiness Project. In that book she invites readers to identify the overarching principles by which they lead their lives. From this perspective she offers a number of questions to…
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Yesterday I introduced what Gretchen Rubin refers to in her book, Better Than Before, as the Four Tendencies she has observed that impact how people develop habits.
Today on Day 2 of my commitment to develop that blogging habit, I want to share more details common to individuals with these tendencies.
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I recently began reading the book Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin. This book tackles the question: How do we change? The answer is by using habits.
Rubin is the first to acknowledge that no one-size-fits-all solution exists for creating habits.
However, she proposes that habits begin with self-knowledge,…
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When you ask most people how long it takes to form a new habit, the odds are good they will answer, "21 days." But that number is wrong, wrong, wrong!
The origin of this erroneous number is explained by James Clear in a blog that appeared in the Huffington Post last…
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