Kindle Price: | $6.99 |
Sold by: | Amazon.com Services LLC |
Your Memberships & Subscriptions
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- To view this video download Flash Player
- VIDEO
Audible sample
Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results Kindle Edition
Explore your book, then jump right back to where you left off with Page Flip.
View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look.
Enjoy features only possible in digital – start reading right away, carry your library with you, adjust the font, create shareable notes and highlights, and more.
Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration.
***A Worldwide Bestseller in 21 Languages!***
Lasting Change for Early Quitters, Burnouts, the Unmotivated, and Everyone Else TooWhen I decided to start exercising consistently 10 years ago, this is what actually happened:
- I tried "getting motivated." It worked sometimes.
- I tried setting audacious big goals. I almost always failed them.
- I tried to make changes last. They didn't.
Like most people who try to change and fail, I assumed that I was the problem. Then one afternoon—after another failed attempt to get motivated to exercise—I (accidentally) started my first mini habit. I initially committed to do one push-up, and it turned into a full workout. I was shocked. This "stupid idea" wasn't supposed to work. I was shocked again when my success with this strategy continued for months (and to this day).
I had to consider that maybe I wasn't the problem in those 10 years of mediocre results. Maybe it was my prior strategies that were ineffective, despite being oft-repeated as "the way to change" in countless books and blogs.
I was right.
Is There A Scientific Explanation For This?
As I sought understanding, I found a plethora of scientific studies that had answers, with nobody to interpret them correctly. Based on the science--which you'll find peppered throughout Mini Habits--we've been doing it all wrong.
You can succeed without the guilt, intimidation, and repeated failure associated with such strategies as "getting motivated," New Year's Resolutions, or even "just doing it." In fact, you need to stop using those strategies if they aren't giving you great results. They don't work because they all require you to fight against your subconscious brain (a fight not easily won). It's only when you start playing by your brain's rules and taking your human limitations seriously--as mini habits show you how to do--that you can achieve lasting change.
What's A Mini Habit?
A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; its "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy. You will have no choice but to believe in yourself when you're always moving forward. The barrier to the first step is so low that even depressed or "stuck" people can find early success and begin to reverse their lives right away. And if you think one push-up a day is too small to matter, I've got one heck of a story for you!
Aim For The First Step
I've used the Mini Habits strategy to get into the best shape of my life, read 10x more books, and write 4x as many words. It started from requiring one push-up from myself every day. How ridiculous is that? Not so ridiculous when you consider the science of the brain, habits, and willpower. The Mini Habits system works because it's how our brains are designed to change.
Read Mini Habits now, and discover how smaller habits lead to bigger results!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 22, 2013
- File size3229 KB
Shop this series
See full series-
All 2$14.98
-
All 2$14.98
This option includes 2 books.
Customers also bought or read
- Habit Stacking: 127 Small Changes to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and HappinessKindle Edition$3.99$3.99
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and BusinessGoodreads ChoiceKindle Edition$12.99$12.99
- Mini Habits for Weight Loss - Small Changes, Big Results: Habits for Weight Loss Full GuideKindle Edition$2.49$2.49
- The More You Do The Better You Feel: How to Overcome Procrastination and Live a Happier LifeKindle Edition$7.95$7.95
- Eat That Frog! Third Edition: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less TimeJust releasedKindle Edition$9.97$9.97
Customers who bought this item also bought
- To summarize, a mini habit is a VERY small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day.Highlighted by 4,525 Kindle readers
- The only way to create habits is to teach the rest of your brain to like what the prefrontal cortex wants.Highlighted by 4,176 Kindle readers
- We're quick to blame ourselves for lack of progress, but slow to blame our strategies.Highlighted by 3,880 Kindle readers
From the Publisher
Mini Habits: A Life-Changing Strategy
Worldwide Bestseller
Mini Habits has been the #1 selling self-help book in the following countries: United States, Canada, South Korea, and China. It is a perennial bestseller because the strategy works!
Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
Stephen Guise's mini habit isn't so mini anymore! What started out as just one push-up a day has not only endured the test of time, it has grown to 30-120 minutes of exercise every day... 9 years later!
Easy to Start
There's nothing easier than starting a new mini habit. Being easy to maintain, the mini habits you begin today can last years... or even a lifetime! Forget 30-day challenges designed burn you out. Play for the long-term win with mini habits.
Stephen Guise, Behavior Change Specialist
The Original Small Habits Book
Mini Habits introduced a groundbreaking strategy for developing habits in 2013. It remains popular today because of its timeless wisdom for turning small beginnings into big results.
Author Stephen Guise
International Bestselling Author
Stephen Guise has been researching and writing about personal development for more than 15 years. By combining creativity and logic with cutting edge psychology and neuroscience research, he's crafted some of the most widely used strategies for behavior change and habit formation today, including Mini Habits and Elastic Habits. His techniques are used by teachers, psychologists, doctors, and therapists all over the world.
In Mini Habits, you'll learn how to:
- Overcome resistance to action
- Conquer feelings of overwhelm
- Use momentum to exceed your expectations
- Make success easier than failure
Customer Reviews |
4.0 out of 5 stars
5
|
4.4 out of 5 stars
2,466
|
4.5 out of 5 stars
1,628
|
4.4 out of 5 stars
560
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Price | $19.99$19.99 | $8.03$8.03 | $16.99$16.99 | $14.99$14.99 |
Description | Track up to four mini habits with the official tracking calendar. It features streamlined and psychologically superior design to help you focus on what matters most—consistency. | Use mini habits to lose weight. It's the perfect match, because the brain and body alike will only respond well to slow, methodical changes. They will fight attempts to change rapidly. | Everyone has harmful perfectionistic tendencies. This book teaches you how to become a happier, more productive imperfectionist with 22 mini habit solutions. | It's mini habits... with a twist. Make your habits flexible, with the ability to expand or contract depending on the unique texture of each day. |
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Ever since I started mini habits, my life has been changing exponentially. [...] Mini Habits is the most life-changing book I've ever read."
- Jason (verified purchase)
"I've exercised every day since reading this book."
- Suzanne Riffel (verified purchase)
"I've been a student of personal development for many years. I have, quite literally, read hundreds of books on the subject. I have accumulated a vast reservoir of knowledge, and yet I have not been able to create any real or lasting change in my life. Zip. Zero. Nada. I always thought it was my fault, but this book showed me that it's the strategies espoused by mainstream personal development that are flawed, not me. Armed with this new knowledge, I am on my way to creating the life I was born to live. Read this book!"
- Richard B. Proctor (verified purchase)
"Of the thousands of self-help ideas I have encountered over the decades, I rate the information in this book as among the very best."
- Chess Maniac (verified purchase)
"In a way, life was a cage where all the fun stuff I want to do was just outside my hand's reach. Mini habits gave me the key to unlock that cage."
- Alties (verified purchase)
"If you are looking for just one book among the multitudes to make a change in your life then this is it."
- Greg Taylor (verified purchase)
About the Author
Blog: stephenguise.com
Product details
- ASIN : B00HGKNBDK
- Publisher : Selective Entertainment LLC (December 22, 2013)
- Publication date : December 22, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 3229 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 126 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1494882272
- Best Sellers Rank: #123,174 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #116 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement (Kindle Store)
- #155 in Self-Esteem Self-Help
- #435 in Personal Transformation
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Stephen Guise is an international bestselling author, blogger, and entrepreneur. His books have been translated into 21 languages. He is known for delivering highly actionable, world-class behavior change strategies in a humorous wrapper. Stephen lives near Disney World in Orlando, FL.
stephenguise.com
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonCustomers say
Customers find the book effective and useful. They describe it as an easy read with a simple premise and method. The book inspires them to incorporate mini habits into other areas of their life and helps them overcome resistance to change. Readers appreciate the positive feeling of accomplishing minimal goals and the calming effect of meditating daily.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Customers find the book effective. They mention it helps them build self-efficacy, allowing them to achieve goals. The book provides useful ideas and a nice base of knowledge for teaching and parenting.
"...or keeping habits and goals, this book is worth reading and applying the techniques." Read more
"...goals every day — on the vast majority of days I have actually exceeded my goals, usually by a tremendous amount...." Read more
"...I am happy to say that so far after a few days, the method is working. I know, I know, a couple of days is nothing...." Read more
"Mini Habits The book Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise is based on the story of how the author discovered that mini..." Read more
Customers find the book easy to read and packed with useful information. They say it's a great guide for chronically ill people, concise, and to the point.
"...stuck with developing or keeping habits and goals, this book is worth reading and applying the techniques." Read more
"...This book is such a quick read, there’s no reason NOT to read it!" Read more
"...I breathe easier. I walk faster. I sing - and even whistle - without any detrimental effects...." Read more
"...Guise's book is an excellent guide." Read more
Customers find the book easy to understand and finish. The premise is simple, and the author does a good job explaining how important it is to break down desired goals into small steps. The method is simple, making it easy to start and not overwhelming. The book helps them along their first steps and makes progress in small steps, so that they build a habit without any pressure.
"...Each section flowed smoothly into the next concept. The author also included some great online resources and links...." Read more
"...This new way that I have found to reach my daily writing goal, doesn’t just work for writing...." Read more
"...I have discovered that the minuteness of the habit makes it easy to start, and then I am often encouraged to keep going since I’ve already..." Read more
"...hand, does not require a lot willpower to start and since it is easy to do, it creates a regular positive experience by doing it each day...." Read more
Customers find the book inspiring and helpful for incorporating mini habits into other areas of their life. They appreciate the sections on habit formation, which are interesting and well-researched. The book provides a practical approach to goal setting, and it's never too late to start new mini habits.
"...Not only have I met my goals every day — on the vast majority of days I have actually exceeded my goals, usually by a tremendous amount...." Read more
"This book had a great effect on me...." Read more
"Mini Habits work. Here's my proof: For many years, I was a regular exerciser...." Read more
"Mini Habits The book Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise is based on the story of how the author discovered that mini..." Read more
Customers find the book helpful for understanding motivation and willpower. They appreciate the affirming feeling of accomplishing minimal goals and the author's approach to life's goals. The book provides a different perspective on behaviors and motivation, making it feel doable. Readers also appreciate the anti-procrastination and self-doubt decision making sections, which are important for people with little discipline.
"...The main key is making a habit "stupid small", in other words, the less willpower and less mental resistance that you have towards completing a habit..." Read more
"...on exercise and willpower, exercising has slowly brought back my motivation to exercise...." Read more
"...Establishing a mini-habit, on the other hand, does not require a lot willpower to start and since it is easy to do, it creates a regular positive..." Read more
"...Growing will power through consistent small successes, creating an ego that expects success.... Nope not tricky...." Read more
Customers find the meditating practice easy and calming. They say it helps them start meditating, defuses anxiety and apprehension, and enhances self-esteem. The approach removes guilt and makes them feel successful and empowered to tackle challenges. It also removes the sense of overwhelm that stops people from making changes in behavior and improves their health and emotional well-being.
"...lot willpower to start and since it is easy to do, it creates a regular positive experience by doing it each day...." Read more
"...This is a method for healing squashed egos. It is all well and good to celebrate the quick learners, but how about the consistent workers too?..." Read more
"...These habits could be exercising, writing, meditating or even just thinking happy thoughts...." Read more
"...I found it so calming, I added tapping to my list and now have 5 items on my list...." Read more
Customers have different views on the writing style. Some find the message clear and readable, with straightforward language and humor. Others find it wordy and difficult to read, with typos and grammar mistakes. The book seems to be well-communicated and convincing, but some readers feel the writing lacks continuity and is wordy as it goes on.
"The author wrote in a clear, concise, and engaging style. His suggestions are easy to follow...." Read more
"...Writing so sporadically kills the continuity, too. I kept losing the “flow” in my writing...." Read more
"...However what Stephen is saying is always clear and his reasoning is always spelt out...." Read more
"...visual digital track record of my goals and the comprehendable information from the book/audio, is a huge positive...." Read more
Customers find the book repetitive and using the same examples repeatedly. They feel it's not helpful and there are too many wasted pages.
"...Criticisms? I found it a little repetitious at times. (I'm an intuitive - I like the main idea and its application spelt out and left at that)...." Read more
"This book is easy to read and understand, but hard to follow up on when you have very little self-discipline like me...." Read more
"...has designed them to customize to your needs so that it is almost impossible to fail...." Read more
"...The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of how repetitive it gets...." Read more
Reviews with images
This Book Changed My LIfe
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2024The author wrote in a clear, concise, and engaging style. His suggestions are easy to follow. The information is easy to digest while still maintaining an insightful depth. Each section flowed smoothly into the next concept. The author also included some great online resources and links.
I started to apply the mini habits to some daily goals that I have been struggling with, and I haven't missed a day yet. The main key is making a habit "stupid small", in other words, the less willpower and less mental resistance that you have towards completing a habit, the easier you will keep doing it.
I really like the author's writing style. The more that I read, the more motivated I became.
If you fell stuck with developing or keeping habits and goals, this book is worth reading and applying the techniques.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018(This review was completely rewritten on December 26, 2018. Because WOW, Mini Habits has totally changed my life!)
According to the University of Scranton, Journal of Clinical Psychology (2012), New Year’s resolutions have an abysmal success rate of only 8%.
What this means, of course, is that 92% of all the New Year’s resolutions that will be made six days from now, are never going to happen. The majority of these resolutions will fall by the wayside within the first couple of weeks.
I was looking back over my old blog posts recently and I saw where I had made the declaration on New Year’s Day in 2016 that I was going to finish writing my memoir by the end of that year. And it never happened.
About 80% of us intend to write a book someday, according to what I have read. And, for the vast majority of people, that “someday” for writing a book never comes.
The first time I tried to write a story about my life, I was in my twenties. I thought I was ready to tell my real-life horror to healing story, but I wasn’t even close to being ready.
Today, four decades later, thanks to all the healing therapy that I have had in recent years, I know that I’m as ready as I will ever be to share my story with the world. But even so, writing my memoir is still very hard. It is all too easy, on any given day, to come up with one excuse after another for putting off writing. “I’ll do it tomorrow!”
But tomorrow never comes. All we have is today.
Sometimes, like when I made a determined New Year’s resolution, I would get all excited and write like my brain was on fire for several mega productive days in a row. But sooner or later, something always happened that seemed bigger than my ability to write, and I wouldn’t get any writing done that day.
Sometimes the problem might simply be a headache. At other times, I was just too tired to write. I might get some worrisome news from someone I love, or maybe see something on the national news that upset me. Some days I was too busy running errands, or doing laundry, or taking care of our rescue dogs.
There were also many times when I was planning to write a part of my story that was especially painful to think about, and on that particular day I would rather think happier thoughts and enjoy where my life is right now. For all of these and many other reasons, I kept setting my manuscript aside, intending to come back to it tomorrow, or next week, or next month — or next year.
This has been my reality for far too many years. Trying and failing, and trying and failing, and trying and failing again, to write a memoir. Even on those days when my writing was going great, I was rarely capable of keeping up the momentum for long. Usually, one solid week of writing every day was the best I could manage at a time. Which is pretty much the longevity of the average New Year’s resolution!
Writing so sporadically kills the continuity, too. I kept losing the “flow” in my writing. For this reason, even though I tried really hard to pick up where I had left off, I found that I couldn’t do it, after too many days of not writing had gone by. Which means I kept starting my memoir all over again. I haven’t kept count, but I probably did this hundreds of times.
More than anything that I may ever accomplish in this life, I want to finish and publish my memoir. Lord willing, I don’t want to take my story to the grave.
But I am not going to make another New Year’s resolution next week, only to fail before the month is out. And that’s okay, because I don’t need to make any more New Year’s resolutions to write my memoir. Why? Because 111 days ago, on September 7, 2018, I discovered an entirely new way of getting myself to write, every single day.
So far, this new way of building a daily writing habit is working perfectly for me. For the past 110 days, I have not missed a single day of meeting my memoir writing goal. (I haven’t done today’s memoir writing yet, which is why I say 110 days, instead of 111. But I have no doubt that I will meet my writing goal for today, before I go to bed tonight.)
I met my writing goal even on November 20, when my doctor told me that I had skin cancer and needed surgery right away. I met my writing goal on Thanksgiving, as we traveled to be with family. I met my writing goal on December 6, when I checked into the hospital and had surgery under general anesthesia. I met my writing goal on the day after my surgery, when I was in pain and feeling very woozy. I met my writing goal while my husband and I have been battling a miserable flu of some kind for the past couple of weeks. Through headaches, stomach aches, and coughing fits that almost made me pass out, I have met my writing goal every single day.
And then there was Christmas! That’s right, I met my writing goal on Christmas eve and on Christmas day.
When people came to visit, I met my writing goal. When we had places to go and errands to run, I met my writing goal. When I got some very bad news about my precious aunt, and when I read things in the news media that shattered my heart, I met my writing goal. Even when I was writing very hard things, I still met my writing goal. Regardless of what has been going on, even on the most challenging of days, I have met my writing goal every day for the past 110 days, without missing one single day.
I have never been able to do this before. It’s like a miracle — and yet, this method is completely natural — which is why it works so well!
This new way that I have found to reach my daily writing goal, doesn’t just work for writing. This method works for any kind of goal that you may want to implement in your life. Five days after I started my memoir writing goal on September 7, I added two daily exercise goals and one daily housework goal. And I haven’t missed any of those goals, either, since I started my three additional goals on September 12. For the past 105 days, through all of the ups and downs: cancer scare, surgery, being sick, bad news, and the holidays, I have met every one of my four daily goals, every single day.
Not only have I met my goals every day — on the vast majority of days I have actually exceeded my goals, usually by a tremendous amount.
With the exception of having the flu and my recent surgery — which turned out NOT to be cancer, yay! — this is the best my life has been, EVER. Thanks to all the planks I’m doing and the miles I’m putting on my exercise bike, my muscle tone is the best that it’s been in decades. Best of all, I have written so much further than I’ve ever written in my memoir before — and I am still going strong!
So — how is this even possible? When 92% of New Year’s Resolutions fail, when approximately 80% of us want to write a book and never do, and when the vast majority of exercise programs fall by the wayside within the first month — after all the years that I have tried, and failed, over and over again, to write a memoir and to get my muscles in better shape — HOW am I doing this?
Here’s how: I bought a book. I read it. And I did what it said.
I have read countless self-help, how to write, how to overcome writer’s block, and how to stop procrastinating books, within the past half century. And yet all of those books failed me, just like my New Year’s resolutions always failed.
But Mini Habits by Stephen Guise actually works.
Take it from an expert in trying and failing to meet an important goal: forget New Year’s resolutions. Whether your goal is getting in shape, cleaning up a terminally messy house, writing a book, pursuing higher education, or whatever you want to accomplish, if Mini Habits can work for me, I believe it can work for anybody.
What’s so different about Mini Habits? The science behind it, that’s what’s different. Mini Habits works, because this is the way our amazing brains were created to work.
Thank you for reading my review. God bless, and have a Happy Mini Habits New Year!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019This book had a great effect on me. I highly recommend it if you are one of those people who always says, “I want to work out at least x times a week. I want to write at least x amount per day. I want to eat healthier, read more, get better at piano, etc,” but it’s been ten years and you still ARE NOT that person. That’s me. And I’m still saying those things ten years later. If it didn’t happen in the last ten years, why will it happen in the next?
Hello “mini habits.”
Mini Habits are “laughably small” or “stupid small” versions of a bigger habit you would like to develop. The idea of developing small habits means you’re getting the hardest part out of the way: the decision making. Once you’re doing the action, you are much likelier to continue ding it. That’s the theory in a nutshell. You can get a much more expanded explanation with reasons in Mini Habits (the book).
Since starting this book, I’ve adapted several mini habits like: 1. Playing one song cover to cover on the piano (since practice 30 minutes always seemed like a mountain of a task) 2. Write 50 words a day (since 200 and even 2000 seemed overwhelming) 3. Read two pages a day (since read for one hour before bed feels daunting at the end of the day) and 4. Exercise or do five minutes of yoga
I am happy to say that so far after a few days, the method is working. I know, I know, a couple of days is nothing. It takes much longer to develop a habit. However, I have discovered that the minuteness of the habit makes it easy to start, and then I am often encouraged to keep going since I’ve already started.
This book is such a quick read, there’s no reason NOT to read it!
Top reviews from other countries
-
José E.Reviewed in Mexico on October 31, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro.
La información contenida es clara y sin rodeos. Los ejercicios o técnica que propone el autor se pueden aplicar inmediatamente y se da una explicación del porque funcionan. Un pequeño que fomenta la acción consistente paso es mejor que un gran paso sin continuidad.
- SylvieReviewed in France on July 27, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Small is a winner
Small is a winner to fire up the willpower and learn the brain to follow the building of a new habit.
I highly recommend it 😃
-
Cliente KindleReviewed in Italy on August 23, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro di grande aiuto
Ho dato questa valutazione perché le strategie proposte dal libro mi hanno aiutato molto a crescere e creare delle abitudini importanti nella mia vita! Lo consiglio a chi è "pigro" o vuole raggiungere un obbiettivo ma trova difficoltà nel farlo.
-
adelinaReviewed in Brazil on December 29, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Boa proposta!
A proposta do livro é criar o hábito e ponto final. E para criar o hábito não precisamos começar com nada grandioso. Se quer ler, comece com 2 páginas. 2 páginas é um número ridículo, na concepção do autor, e, portanto, impossível falharmos. Se quer exercitar-se, comece com 10 minutos. Provavelmente você fará mais que 2 páginas, mais que 10 minutos, mas a ideia é realmente criar o hábito! :) Recomendo!
- Kindle CustomerReviewed in India on April 17, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changer
No other books about building a habit is more effective than this amazing book by Mr.Stephen..It has changed me,my perceptions about willpower, motivation.I believe after reading this book -motivation and willpower are not as tricky as they pronounced.But the key of buiding long lasting habit is to keep it STUPID-SMALL.Yes i have personally developed my mini habits in a matter of days that turned into weeka without ever failing.It really builds momentum in our lives .I highly recommwnd it for the extremely low willpowered,procaatrinator and the normal ordinary person to read it for yourself and see the changes effectively every single day only if you practise the methods enshrined .STUPID SMALL TO Remarkably Great and Greater.