A review by josiee123
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

I listened to this on audio so may need to review more and make notes. It's a good set of systems I'm just not sure how much I can track and review everything! However can upgrade some systems. And the author gives real life examples of success. I don't wanna feel pressured to optimise my entire life, unless we're also optimising quality rest - so I've deducted half a star for the "never take a day off, don't miss twice etc" because my lifestyle is just too busy to do every single thing every day. Does the guy not take weekends? Hahah. I'm gonna make myself a Summer Holiday Day Off Habit for hecks sake. I do also now have a weekend routine, for good or ill... Also have deducted half a star for so many mentions of food, diet, veganism and also notions of "good/bad" food. Nutritional awareness is important but this could be highly sensitive for people with ED or other food sensitivities to be tracking every time they have the "bad habit" of eating a donut or whatever. Balance is important but the granular level of focusing on all your food intake/treats/calories versus your general diet could lead to "gymification" and sadness, or worse. Same advice for workouts, sometimes I injure myself badly or have stress/deadlines bro. 
It's a great framework but I'll be adopting a softer approach to snacks, mindless YouTube and sleeping in for my mental health (rest tracking if you will). Rowena Tsai has a great video on 7 Types of Rest which is a good combination for this 
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