Atomic habits challenges the view that, setting multiple goals is the key to success. Instead, James recommends developing systems that help you create practices that will increase your chances of success. The most straightforward approach to implement is one that enables you to get 1 % better every day.
Clear suggests you can get 1% by:
1: Erase the bad habits and ensure good ones.
2: Erase the common mistakes people make when changing habits.
3: Overcoming a lack of motivation and willpower.
4: To build self-confidence and make an identity of your own.
5: Show times for new habits.
6: Provide an environment smoothly to make success easier.
7: Make small changes that deliver significant results.
8: Take an alternative when you get off the curse.
9: Put these ideas into practical life quickly.
There are four laws of clear, and by adopting them, we can start building habit loops. They are mentioned below.
1: Making it clear
2: Making it eye-catching
3: Making it simple
4: Making it fulfilling
THE FIRST LAW MAKE IT OBVIOUS
In this chapter, Clears mentions that making a new habit is caused by observing the existing practice. It means that it focuses on daily routine and lists all the actions that will repeat regularly, for example, the time and location. After that, label these habits as good, bad, or neutral. This will help to identify patterns you want to break, as well as continue in your routine. The writer considers this as a habit scorecard.
These existing habits prove that if you repeat something more, your brain picks up on it and predicts the result without any rational thoughts, i.e., the action becomes automatic. So, for example, it does not feel right to get in too badly without a brush.
Creating an indication for a new habit makes it easier for your brain to make these unconscious actions, and time and location are too common indications.
So before planning a new habit, you should have fixed a time and location for it.
"I will(new attitude) at (time) in (location)."
Or it would be best if you tried habit assemble, paring a new tradition with the existing practice:
"After (current habit), I will (new habit)."
This section indicates the importance of the environment in making habits stick. But it also comes back to the location and the idea of creating a new habit in a domain because old indications surround you.
THE SECOND LAW, MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE
When something seems attractive, we want to repeat that attitude regularly. It means that when habits seem appealing, you are more likely to keep doing them.
Temptation bundling is one technique to make this easier; it means that you associate your wish attitude with something that you want to do:
"After (a habit I need), I will do (a habit I want)," so you could join a group where your wish attitude is typical to give yourself the courage to do that action. Usually, we respect our tribe, and we want to fit in it-so. Destroy this thing to help you build your new habit. If you want to be a creative writer, join a local writing group quickly.
THE THIRD LAW, MAKE IT EASY
According to the writer, we humans are straightforward creatures, and we must follow the law of the smallest number of attempts, which means we have to do the most detailed work.
So, to make an approach, you must focus on completing it. To stay fit, you must work out and go to the gym.
If you want to keep your attitude the same, make them accessible.
In this section, James Clear set a two-minute rule: starting a new routine will take up to two minutes to complete.
Making a Plan for a habit is easy, but you must work to make it a habit. So, divide your aims into steps so you can take on the convention by two-minute action. For example: if you want to make yoga your habit, take the classes for a month and note that on your dairy.
THE FOURTH LAW MAKE IT SATISFYING
In the previous sections, we have studied behavior that happens [make it obvious, attractive, easy]. Making it satisfying is about ensuring we repeat that behavior the next time. If a behavior feels satisfying, we are more likely to repeat that action. If a behavior feels satisfying, we are more likely to repeat that action. For instance, we prefer the quick reward of suited taste while eating chocolate rather than the tip of feeling healthier.
So, you want to feel some success when your wish behavior is complete, and your likeness will be an increase of doing it again.
The feeling of making success is something that motivates most of us. It's simple to put this into place by starting to track your habit.
The cardinal rule of building a habit successfully is never to miss twice. Missing your pattern once is fine, but if you make your priority, you don't miss it a second time.
A part of its genes influences our habits. If you want to be successful, you should continue a routine that fits your nature. If you do this, genes play an essential role in accelerating you're and giving you benefits.
It would help if you also push yourself into your comfort zone. This means we should review our habits and add new wish behaviors to keep improving ourselves.
Know your goals, acknowledge them, and proceed with your routine and habit, regardless of what is going on in life.