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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Part instruction manual, part someone else's diary, the authors of [this book] interviewed sixty-four of today's most successful people-- including three-time Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, and General Stanley McChrystal--and offer advice on creating a [morning] routine of your own"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Vida
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Paidós
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A neuroscience professor and a Harvard law professor team up in this groundbreaking work, based on decades of research in the psychological and biological sciences, that shows how disrupting our routines can lead to seeing, feeling and noticing again--and embracing much-needed change to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to boost productivity -- what we come to know as habits. Over time, these habits (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) are done on autopilot. But when a layer of mindfulness accompanies a habit -- when we focus on the precise way an act is performed -- a ritual has been created. Now, an everyday act goes from black-and-white to technicolor. And as author Michael Norton...
Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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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English
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"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Del autor del bestseller internacional Goodbye, Things llega esta guía que nos ayudará a adoptar buenos hábitos y a convertirnos en la mejor versión de nosotros mismos. Fumio Sasaki cambió su vida cuando se convirtió en minimalista, pero antes que nada tuvo que convertirlo en un hábito. Todos nosotros vivimos nuestras vidas basándonos en los hábitos que hemos ido formando, desde el momento en que nos levantamos por la mañana hasta lo que...
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