The Green Spotlight #22; Atomic Habits.

Greetings and welcome to the twenty second edition of the green spotlight. The green spotlight is a weekly blog where I review inspiring books of different genres which is geared towards encouraging reading habits amongst our readers.

Readers are leaders and always stays ahead of others because reading is a means of rubbing minds with great people who have gone ahead in different fields. If you want to be great, follow a great man.

In reading, you uncover different secrets of people who have succeeded in the particular field you are looking at and interacting with them through their books would simply allow you get to know some things about the reason behind their success even if you are not close to them. Hence I always encourage people to read hard, wide and wild.

This week we would be reviewing a very interesting book tittle “Atomic Habits”

Unto the review of the week

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Author: James Clear
Year published: 2018
Number of chapters: 20
Number of pages: 285
Published by : Penguin Random House

My opinion about the book “ Atomic Habits”

Introduction/Theme

We all are a bunch of habits, which are either good or bad. We all have habits that we are struggling with to change especially bad habits.

Do you know that your habits would determine a lot as to whether you will fail or succeed. Atomic habits is a book that brings into reality how the seemingly little habits we tend to ignore especially the bad ones tends to get the most of us.

The authors opening story of how he survived a gruesome accident on a base ball pitch and how he began his journey of recovery after his set back through building atomic habits is an empathic one.

It got me glued to the pages of this book and wanting to know more. If he could rise from a seemingly difficult situation into lime light through the atomic habits he built over the years, how about you and I.

Let’s look at few points to glean from this beautiful book.

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Key points from the chapters

• Have you heard the popular saying that little drops of water makes an ocean? This same principle applies here. If you can decide to improve your habits by 1% everyday which is a seemingly insignificant number, by the end of a year, you would have made a 37% increase in improvement.

Likewise if you decide to lag behind on your habits by 1% everyday which is an insignificant sum, by the end of the year you would have deteriorated to almost zero percent. That’s the power of atomic habits. Small habits simply makes great differences.

• Here we see about not determining to set goals rather we should focus on changing our system. The author iterated that if we do have problems changing out habits, it not really about the habits but about our system.

If you focus on changing the system that breeds the bad habits, you would see yourself breakout of bad habits. It’s not about settings goals but about changing your system. See more on this in the book.

• Do you want to build good habits that would last, focus on changing your identity. It’s called building identity habits; that is habits based on your identity. What you are doing now is simply a reflection of how you see yourself.

If you want to change what you do, then start from changing how you see yourself. Who do you want to be, you have to decide that and start with proving yourself win little wins here and there.

• The author shows us four simple steps of building a good habit and he explains that the process is simply divided into four steps which he called the cue, the craving, the response and reward.

Interesting right, am sure you already want to know how this works, that’s your cue to decide to read this book now. Don’t procrastinate. Eat that frog.

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My rating of the book

I’ve been coming across lots of great books lately and I must say that they have been awesome and this inclusive. Atomic habits is a must read. We all have those nasty habits we want to do away with and some have seemed quite impossible dealing with them.

That’s why you need atomic habits in your library. I give it a rating of 10/10 for a great exposition of habits and how they affect our lives and how they can be changed.

Conclusion

Habits can either make you or mare you depending on which you are more into either good or bad respectively.

Our thoughts leads to actions and actions to habits and habits to our character. So you see why we have to get rid of any bad ones around. Hence the need to read atomic habits. One of the habits you should pick up this season is that of reading, read Atomic Habits.

Thank you for being a part of this week’s edition of The Green Spotlight, if you missed our last edition on “No excuses; the power of self discipline”, check it out here Edition 21.

Your thoughts on this edition of the green spotlight is welcomed and hope to see you again on our subsequent editions.