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Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide...
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2021.
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English
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"A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits. Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone. We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full-blown panic. But it's also what drives the addictive behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and...
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Ixia Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"At the age of thirty-four, journalist Jacqueline Raposo finds herself sick, single, broke, and wandering in a fog. Despite decades of discipline, her chronic illness is getting worse. Despite hosting a radio show about dating, she hasn't been in love in years. And despite a successful writing career, she's deeply in debt. Weary of trying to solve her problems by adding things to her life, she attempts the opposite and subtracts some of her most constant...
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Watkins
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Are you ready to take your power back from alcohol? Whether you're looking to go booze free or want to make informed adjustments to your drinking habits, this inclusive and non-judgemental guide gives you the scientifically backed tools you need to create a relationship with alcohol that works for you, from cold exposure therapy to sound healing and beyond. You will explore the roots of your drinking behaviours and triggers, hear from leading industry...
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Joyce Meyer examines the nature of habits and provides guidance for listeners seeking to break bad habits. She argues that any immediate gratification gained from bad habits is outweighed by the spiritual toll they take on an individual. Here, she introduces fourteen fulfilling habits that she suggests using to replace the bad ones. She explains that by implementing the good habits, listeners will become spiritually fulfilled and will have no use...
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Urano
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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BJ Fogg est̀ aqu̕ para cambiar tu vida y revolucionar nuestra forma de pensar sobre el comportamiento humano. Basado en veinte ąos de investigaci̤n y la experiencia de Fogg entrenando a m̀s de 40,000 personas, Tiny Habits descifra el c̤digo de la formaci̤n de h̀bitos. Con descubrimientos revolucionarios en cada cap̕tulo, aprender̀ las formas comprobadas m̀s sencillas de transformar su vida. Fogg te muestra c̤mo sentirte bien con tus ̌xitos...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The ancient and scientific secrets to getting unstuck from negative habits. Joining Western psychological science and traditional Buddhism, experimental psychologist and Zen monk Douglas Cheolsoeng Gentile describes how our minds can be simultaneously our greatest weakness and greatest asset. We are controlled by both external forces and internal habits of mind, while simultaneously believing ourselves to be 'free'. This conundrum can be solved by...
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Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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We spend a shocking 43% of our day doing things without thinking about them. Wendy Wood offers the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek. Good Habits, Bad Habits is a comprehensive, accessible, and above all deeply practical book.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I'm 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I'm nearly a sphere. Those are the numbers. This is how it feels... So begins The Elephant in the Room, Tommy Tomlinson's remarkably intimate and insightful memoir of his life as a fat man. When he was almost fifty years old,...
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Vida
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Craig Groeschel sabe lo que es estar atrapado en el ciclo desalentador de intentar cambiar, pero fallar. Esta fue su historia, hasta que comenzó a descubrir principios prácticos para experimentar un cambio duradero en su propia vida que ha enseñado a muchos otros. durante más de veinticinco años en LifeChurch"-- $c Proporcionado por el editor
"Craig Groeschel knows what it's like to be caught in the dispiriting cycle of trying to change, but...
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Paidós
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Español
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"Atomic Habits starts from a simple but powerful question: How can we live better? We know that good habits allow us to significantly improve our lives, but often we get off track: we stop exercising, we eat poorly, we sleep little, we waste. Why is it so easy to fall into bad habits and so difficult to follow the good ones? James Clear gives us fantastic ideas based on scientific research, which allows him to reveal how we can transform small daily...
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Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Speaker, pastor, and popular author calls us to replace mere virtue signaling with the world-changing practice of living a virtuous life characterized by humility, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, self-control, and more"--
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy...
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