Most Replayed Moment: The Mid-Year Reset - Atomic Habits Author On How To Get Back On Track

Uh Earlier on when you said that you know ambitious people, they have lots of aspirations, lots of habits they want to start. I was thinking about myself and thinking, there's probably Thirty habits that I would like to acquire. I'd wanna be better at writing, I wanna be a runner, I wanna be better at speaking, I wanna be a better friend and be more um attentive with my friends and make sure I text them on their birthdays and share, you know, all of these new habits that I want to pursue. How does one know?

Which one? To aim for. First. Is there a framework for knowing? Yeah, there there's some things that you can do. I don't think um To your point earlier about the Sometimes the riskiest things just take a long time making the decision. You know, if you maybe you should just pick one and work on it and then you can get on to the next one. But I do think there's some level of strategy, which is

A good place to start is by asking yourself which habits are upstream from other good things happening. So For example I know that i if you were maybe the maybe the question to start with is when you live a good day. When you feel dialed in, when things are like rolling along well for you.

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