Article not written by me;
Let’s face it, we all have a bad habit we’d like to break, or a new
habit we’d like to start – like exercising in the early morning, or
eating a healthy lunch (or for busy entrepreneurs, maybe something as
simple as taking a lunch break every day). We’ve all read articles with
titles like “The Top 10 Habits of Successful People” and have maybe
tried to incorporate some of the habits of Steve Jobs or Richard Branson
into our daily schedules with little success.
While following in
the habit footsteps of others may not be the key to your success,
forming a new habit, or getting rid of an old, unhealthy one, is the key
to happiness and success, according to happiness guru Gretchen Rubin.
Rubin
has made a career out of researching and speaking about happiness.
“I’ve noticed when people mention a big happiness boost or a big
happiness challenge they were struggling with, often it came down to an
issue of habit,” she says. Being exhausted all day long, for example,
was really a result of a lack of habit of getting enough sleep. In her
new book
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Lives, Rubin spells out the four pillars of habit-making:
