Better Than Before: What I Learned about Making and Breaking Habits--To Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a

by Gretchen Rubin

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Happiness Project and "a force for real change" (Bren Brown) examines how changing our habits can change our lives.

"If anyone can help us stop procrastinating, start exercising, or get organized, it's Gretchen Rubin. The happiness guru takes a sledgehammer to old-fashioned notions about change."--Parade

Most of us have a habit we'd like to change, and there's no shortage of expert advice. But as we all know from tough experience, no magic, one-size-fits-all solution exists. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.

In Better Than Before, acclaimed writer Gretchen Rubin identifies every approach that actually works. She presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habits--and to change them for good.

Infused with Rubin's compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, Better Than Before explains the (sometimes counterintuitive) core principles of habit formation and answers the most perplexing questions about habits:

- Why do we find it tough to create a habit for something we love to do?
- How can we keep our healthy habits when we're surrounded by temptations?
- How can we help someone else change a habit?

Rubin reveals the true secret to habit change: first, we must know ourselves. When we shape our habits to suit ourselves, we can find success--even if we've failed before.

Whether you want to eat more healthfully, stop checking devices, or finish a project, the invaluable ideas in Better Than Before will start you working on your own habits--even before you've finished the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385348630
• ISBN13: 9780385348638
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The best self-help book for habit forming that I've read so far.

Of the habit forming books I've read, I really think this one is the most helpful. She starts off talking about so many different tools you can use to help form habits, and which ones might be helpful for different types of habit formers. Then she finishes by addressing a lot of the conscious and sometimes subconscious ways we tend to sabotage ourselves out of the habits we want, and gives you different ways you can help yourself rewrite your own thinking to help you keep your new good habits for life. This book is packed with so many tips and tricks and advice, I really think there's something for everyone and now I want all my friends to read it!! Highly recommend 😊