Atomic Habits: How It Helped Me Publish My Second Book
I’ve been hearing about James Clear’s book Atomic Habits for years now. It’s one of those books that a lot of big-name folks have read and it’s received a lot of hype in personal growth circles. I knew there had to be a reason why, but it wasn’t until a friend told me she was reading it with her husband that I put it on my Libro Wish List. Still, I hesitated.
Did I really have time to change my habits?
Was there something I was missing out on if I didn’t?
I wasn’t convinced. Until a few weeks ago when I entered the final editing stage for Big Dreams, Big Change, Big Growth and realized it was going to take a lot more than my usual willpower and tiny early morning writing windows to get me over the finish line to publishing it. So I set off on a long walk one morning and pressed play on the audiobook version of this little book making big promises.
Within the first hour of listening, I was hooked by the author’s story of recovering from a life-threatening baseball injury as a teenager and how he used tiny habits to make big changes and not only heal, but go on to play baseball in college. (If you didn’t know, I love baseball so that instantly won me over.)
Within the second hour, I was learning how to make good habits more obvious, attractive, and easy for myself. And I was learning how taking those steps could be a major shortcut to being more me for my people and loving my life a lot more.
By the end of the book, I had not only set into motion new habits that made publishing my book a whole lot easier, but I was:
making my work calendar more manageable,
finding my reading time more productive,
getting better at organizing my grocery shopping lists, and
getting my kids to clean their own bathrooms more easily.
And yes, after stepping into my own atomic habits, I was able to make the final push and click PUBLISH on Big Dreams, Big Change, Big Growth — something I’ve been working towards for three years.
So, Atomic Habits is a book I highly recommend.
And the author James Clear is also a bit of an online personality to follow, as well. His weekly newsletter is great, and he spreads a lot of positivity on Instagram, too. He also shares a lot of free goodies on his website. Just after joining his email group, I got this list of links:
If you’re working on a thing or two (or 50) right now, I hope this little book makes it a whole lot easier for you, too.
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In case you missed last Friday’s announcement. . .
My new book Big Dreams, Big Change, Big Growth: 21 Days to Making It Happen is out!!! It’s available on Amazon (& as of today, available at Bookshop.org!) & on its way to other bookish places soon.
If you were one of the beautiful souls who purchased a copy this week, would you take a moment to leave a review? (Here’s a direct link to the review page.) Thank you SO much—this one little step helps independent authors like me more than I can even tell you.