I chose the book Mini Habits written by Stephen Guise for my book analysis. In this analysis, I first will explain why I chose this particular book and discuss which two topics that were most interesting to me and how they made an impact on my life. Next, I will give a detailed explanation on why making mini habits is successful while providing backings from an external source. Lastly, I will discuss how this book impacted me and how I have applied mini habits in my personal and professional practice.
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I selected the book Mini Habits because it appeared to me that this would be something that I could do. Just the title seemed easy enough for me. “A mini habit is very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; a mini …show more content…
Stephen
Guise stated, “But when you continue to step outside the circle, your subconscious will get
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comfortable with it and your circle will expand (Guise, 2013, p.54). For me and my circle, I am most comfortable at work and home. I do go to the gym but not as much as I want to. I also have a home gym that I was so eager to use and was not using it because of laziness. I now have a mini habit that I do one sit up a day upstairs in my gym. I have done this for that past two weeks and I have not failed. Sometimes I do more and add exercises because I have already started.
But, on the days I work, I just run upstairs and do my one sit up. This is becoming a routine and I do not fail when I work because it is just one sit up. If I never had this one mini habit, I can guarantee you my workout room would be dust and I wouldn’t have set foot in it these past two weeks. This brings me to the second topic that I chose which is repetition. When I achieved my mini habits every day for the past two weeks, the feeling was overpowering and encouraging! I can keep this going. As Stephen Guise stated, “The goal in creating habits is to change your …show more content…
This means that we need to see why we are not achieving our goals. I
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was not achieving my goals because they were too high and not realistic. My obstacle was my brain and not getting started. While using the mini habit method, I have identified what I was doing wrong and have corrected it and I am leading toward success. As we know from the book
Mini Habits, repetition is what trains our brains. Repetition is not caused by motivation but rather our will power. When we set “stupid” small goals, we have the willpower to keep going thus resulting in repetition. “Forming new habits through repetition in stable contexts and through piggybacking onto existing habits can inform the design and dissemination of new policies” (Rotham et al., 2015). This statement also supports Stephen Guise’s claims.
Practice Application.
This book has made an overall impact on my personal and professional life. If there is something that I want to do, I create the smallest goal so I will not fail. If I successfully complete the goal, I often go above and beyond. My personal mini habit goal is to do one sit up in
Book
I selected the book Mini Habits because it appeared to me that this would be something that I could do. Just the title seemed easy enough for me. “A mini habit is very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; a mini …show more content…
Stephen
Guise stated, “But when you continue to step outside the circle, your subconscious will get
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comfortable with it and your circle will expand (Guise, 2013, p.54). For me and my circle, I am most comfortable at work and home. I do go to the gym but not as much as I want to. I also have a home gym that I was so eager to use and was not using it because of laziness. I now have a mini habit that I do one sit up a day upstairs in my gym. I have done this for that past two weeks and I have not failed. Sometimes I do more and add exercises because I have already started.
But, on the days I work, I just run upstairs and do my one sit up. This is becoming a routine and I do not fail when I work because it is just one sit up. If I never had this one mini habit, I can guarantee you my workout room would be dust and I wouldn’t have set foot in it these past two weeks. This brings me to the second topic that I chose which is repetition. When I achieved my mini habits every day for the past two weeks, the feeling was overpowering and encouraging! I can keep this going. As Stephen Guise stated, “The goal in creating habits is to change your …show more content…
This means that we need to see why we are not achieving our goals. I
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was not achieving my goals because they were too high and not realistic. My obstacle was my brain and not getting started. While using the mini habit method, I have identified what I was doing wrong and have corrected it and I am leading toward success. As we know from the book
Mini Habits, repetition is what trains our brains. Repetition is not caused by motivation but rather our will power. When we set “stupid” small goals, we have the willpower to keep going thus resulting in repetition. “Forming new habits through repetition in stable contexts and through piggybacking onto existing habits can inform the design and dissemination of new policies” (Rotham et al., 2015). This statement also supports Stephen Guise’s claims.
Practice Application.
This book has made an overall impact on my personal and professional life. If there is something that I want to do, I create the smallest goal so I will not fail. If I successfully complete the goal, I often go above and beyond. My personal mini habit goal is to do one sit up in