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How To Build Healthy Habits
Explore the top courses, books, podcasts, and products for building healthy habits. Each tool in this collection is handpicked by our personal growth experts.
Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More (Episode #444)
In this conversation, Tim Ferriss and Hugh Jackman dig into lessons learned, routines, favorite books, exercises, intuition, meditation, and much, much more.
Join Thomas Frank, productivity expert, author, and YouTuber, in this comprehensive class that will help you build sustainable habits without once feeling like a failure. Seriously! Through research, experience, and his own trial-and-error, Thomas has laid out the groundwork for lasting habits, and is here to share his experience with you and get your Impossible List off on the right foot.
Learn how serial entrepreneur Ari Meisel reprogrammed his life, dug out of $3MM in debt, started and scaled an outsourcing business overnight, and found a way to maximize time with his family – all with one simple productivity framework.
Clear Habit Journal
A combination of a daily journal, dot grid notebook, and habit tracker all backed by the science of James Clear’s best-selling book, Atomic Habits.
One of our biggest problems with habits is often over estimating what we’re capable of in the short term and underestimating what’s possible the long term. B.J. Fogg encourages us to break things down as tiny as possible so that we can ultimately achieve the consistency we’re craving with our habit aspirations.
Break Your Time-Wasting Habits And Learn To Make The Most Of Your Days with Laura Vanderkam.
Tiny Habit to Change Your Life with Dr. BJ Fogg (Episode #182)
New York Times Bestselling author, BJ Fogg, gives a formula for habit design and shares three hacks for habit change. He offers practical tips, grounded in behavioral science, to create the habits you’ve always wanted.
Ladder: Habit & Mood Tracker
Ladder is your personalized mental wellness app that tracks how your actions, emotions, and thoughts impact your well-being. Build habits with an activity tracker, develop awareness with a CBT-based journal, and get actionable insights powered by data.
Overcoming bad habits can feel like an overwhelming process until you read a book like Atomic Habits. It’s the holy grail of habit building instruction and lives at the top of the Amazon charts for good reason.
Elastic Habits is all about setting up a system of habits to ensure you cannot fail. If you feel like you’ve tried every habit strategy out there, give this one a read before you give up.
2 Min Habits
Overcoming procrastination and laziness may be hard, but it doesn’t always have to be. A new habit shouldn’t feel like a challenge. That’s why we’ve created an app based on a strategy that couldn’t be easier to use – The 2-Minute Rule.
We all have the power to craft a productive, balanced life we love. The key? Focus on the essential and let go of the rest. Learn from best-selling author and speaker Greg McKeown as he reveals a whole new approach to productivity: Essentialism. Focused on quality instead of quantity, Greg shows you how to control your time, spend energy deliberately, and craft an intentional life that works.
Miary: Diary & Mood Tracker
Miary is a beautiful diary and journal app. Record Your daily life journey, once in a lifetime moments, memories, experiences, and major milestones. Miary makes diary writing an effortless and enjoyable experience.
A visual tool to establish good habits that make success inevitable. Includes 2 roadmaps (6 months worth of habit tracking). Choose the habits you want to track, then check off each day to create a winning streak. Before long, your chain of wins becomes so long that it’s more painful to break the chain than doing the habit.
13-week visual progress tracker. Perfect way to keep yourself accountable to your goals.
Big goals and major responsibilities require a massive amount of action. Unfortunately this can often cause well intentioned people to become paralyzed. If that’s you, consider this book to be your antidote to overwhelm.
Chris Bailey, author of “The Productivity Project,” spent a year of his life conducting productivity experiments on himself in order to discover the secrets to living the most productive life possible. He’ll share his most insightful lessons on how to work deliberately rather than reactively, manage your energy better, avoid excessive procrastination and have more time to do what you find meaningful in life.
Tangerine: Self-care & Goals
Tangerine is a free and simple habit and mood tracker that helps you organize your routine, achieve your personal goals and reflect on your life.
Strides: Goal & Habit Tracker
Track all your Goals & Habits in one flexible app. With Strides you can track anything – good or bad habits and SMART goals – with reminders to hold you accountable and charts to keep you motivated. Recommended in The New York Times, Strides has been called “the most comprehensive, user-friendly, beautifully designed goal tracking app available.”
Optimism, Contending with Anger, and Finding Peace Through Exercise – Bob Iger (Episode #406)
Bob Iger shares his experiences working with Steve Jobs, his personal values, and his approach to leadership as CEO of Disney.
Indistractable is a fool-proof guide to defending the most precious commodity you have — your time. It contains practical productivity tips, scheduling hacks, and a variety of methods for preventing distraction.
A one-page weekly planning tool designed to optimize your week and maximize your output. 52 tear-off sheets. Lasts an entire year.
Habits of Success for Creatives, Artists & Entrepreneurs w/ Seth Godin (Episode #1027)
Seth Godin and Lewis Howes sit down to talk about what it’s like to be a creator in today’s world, how we can find our life-passions, and what habits of success really look like.
You Are Not Too Busy To Read – Ryan Holiday
Discover the vitality of reading and how historical leaders carved out time to make it a priority.
What if I told you that nearly all highly successful people share the same 6 habits? According to this book, it’s a fact.
Feelsom: Wellness Tracker
Learn about yourself and find patterns between your daily activities and the way you feel, by tracking health symptoms, food intakes, sleep quality, daily mood, productivity, and physical activity all together!
As a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, Matthew Walker is an expert on sleep. In this class, he will illuminate the science behind sleep and teach you how to increase the quality and quantity of your sleep. Learn how to prevent sleep debt, navigate the effects of alcohol and caffeine, and improve your health. Your best sleep starts tonight.
Avocation – Habit Tracker
Sticking to new habits or breaking old ones can be overwhelming and stressful. How about making it a fun experience? Yes, you’ve read it right. No more exhausting streaks, self-restrictions and unreachable goals. Avocation is your offline pocket growth assistant that will accompany you on your way to a better version of yourself. Our goal is to show you that it is all about small things that only take a few minutes of your time throughout the day.
This book is a full breakdown of habit building. If you want to understand the ins, the outs, and the in-betweens of habits — this book is for you.
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