Comments on: We Are a Collection of Our Habits

By: Deirdre Baker

Deirdre Baker — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:12:00 +0000

This was a terrific podcast. Buying the book this week. I truly connected with the piece about habits changing when you disrupt daily patterns. I think this proves to be a key element in most any change.

Thanks for another great topic on the podcast.

By: Ilana Rabinowitz

Ilana Rabinowitz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:29:00 +0000

I am reading the book and it’s fantastic. I love the idea of the keystone habit–how changing one habit can have a domino effect. It’s a bit unnerving to see how marketers use habits but empowering to know that understanding the nature of habit can change your life.

By: Alfred Poor

Alfred Poor — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:27:00 +0000

Excellent advice. I also subscribe to the “21 days” theory to make or break a habit. I have a little Post-It on my keyboard with 22 hash marks on it to remind me of how hard it was for me to break a certain unwanted habit, and of what it would cost me to have to repeat that process. It’s been maybe a year or more, and I’ve not backslid even one single time.

Alfred Poor
The Center for Small Business

By: ducttape

ducttape — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:59:00 +0000

In reply to AnneEgros. Ironically charting is great habit because it does shed some metrics on what you really do.

By: AnneEgros

AnneEgros — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Since I read many years ago the Steven Covey book : The “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” I believe in the power of habits. Imagine if breathing required you to pay attention to it, you could not use your brain for other things,that is the same with anything than can be “automated’ as an habit. At the beginning, I found useful to use a chart of 10 daily habits that you can track everyday until it is automatic.