Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick
New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits--breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you've never stuck before.
Badass Habits is a eureka-sparking, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast (and, erm, often don't keep) on social media. Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again--our habits reveal our unmet desires, the gaps in our boundaries, our level of self-awareness, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. Badass Habits features Jen's trademark hilarious voice and offers a much-needed fresh take on the conventional wisdom and science that shape the optimism (or pessimism?) around the age-old topic of habits. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who've successfully strengthened their discipline backbones, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves, and offers a simple, 21 day, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don't serve us and developing the habits we deem most important. Habits shouldn't be impossible to reset--and with healthy boundaries, knowledge of--and permission to go after--our desires, and an easy to implement plan of action, we can make any new goal a joyful habit.
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This book had some insight as to what road blocks one may be experiencing in their habits. This was easy to read and digest the information given to combat and build new habits in a manner that wasn’t overwhelming or difficult. However, the writing style was a bit juvenile and repetitive; I found the constant one liner jokes and off the wall examples (left at the end of lists to be a funny surprise after a serious read) to be annoying. It was intended to be lighthearted, and certainly adds to the book’s ability to be an easy read but it was taking away from what I felt was a “serious” topic or chapter of application for habitual routines. The placement made the whole chapter or section of the paragraph feel like a joke.
21 days may have also been a reach, and the same could have been said in say 15. The observations were good, and compelled the reader to look inward and get real with themselves on their struggles, strengths, and goals. But again, by day 18/19 I was feeling like I was rereading previous day’s observations.
I didn’t enjoy the “workbook-esque” construction and read the book the whole way through but I will give credit where credit is due: the author really did a deep dive into the subject matter and different ways bad and good habits impact our lives day to day and how to use them to improve your life as a whole. A decent book, and I’ll probably revisit certain parts to revitalize my mental clarity and awareness of my own habits…but I wouldn’t read again.
This book had some insight as to what road blocks one may be experiencing in their habits. This was easy to read and digest the information given to combat and build new habits in a manner that wasn’t overwhelming or difficult. However, the writing style was a bit juvenile and repetitive; I found the constant one liner jokes and off the wall examples (left at the end of lists to be a funny surprise after a serious read) to be annoying. It was intended to be lighthearted, and certainly adds to the book’s ability to be an easy read but it was taking away from what I felt was a “serious” topic or chapter of application for habitual routines. The placement made the whole chapter or section of the paragraph feel like a joke.
21 days may have also been a reach, and the same could have been said in say 15. The observations were good, and compelled the reader to look inward and get real with themselves on their struggles, strengths, and goals. But again, by day 18/19 I was feeling like I was rereading previous day’s observations.
I didn’t enjoy the “workbook-esque” construction and read the book the whole way through but I will give credit where credit is due: the author really did a deep dive into the subject matter and different ways bad and good habits impact our lives day to day and how to use them to improve your life as a whole. A decent book, and I’ll probably revisit certain parts to revitalize my mental clarity and awareness of my own habits…but I wouldn’t read again.
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