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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These are three of the most valuable books I've read over the past year! Mindset is by Carol Dweck, Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
One perspective they all share is choice - we each have the opportunity to make choices.
Mindset invites us to…
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If you wonder why it's important to vote for the Oregon ERA on November 4, 2014, I urge you to go to www.VoteERA.org to learn WHY NOW.Then volunteer to help pass the Oregon ERA.
Not only are Governor John Kitzhaber and…
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