Atomic Habits – Summarized for Busy People: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: Based on the Book by James Clear

To know the identity and habits best for you, you must understand your own personality. Know yourself then figure out what works for you. If you choose the right habit, you will easily succeed but if you choose the wrong one, you will struggle in your life.

There are two types of behaviors: actions and motions. An action leads to results or outcomes while motion does not directly lead to an outcome. For example, finding a diet plan and reading articles about it is a motion but eating a healthy diet is an action.
The question is that why do we perform motions if they don’t take us to desired outcomes? We do it for two reasons.
First, it helps us with planning and learning. Secondly, it gives the illusion that we are moving forward without failure. This is one of the main reasons why people avoid taking action—because they don’t want the risk of failure. So then they always stay in motion and delay taking action.

You don’t need to be a superhero to avoid temptations, you only need to spend less time in a tempted environment.

Are you spending more than you’re earning? Are you going to the gym weekly? Are you eating healthy food throughout the week? Are you learning new things every day? These little things will help you know your future.

It’s possible to measure your outcomes through your habits. Measuring your net worth will be through your financial habits. Weight can be measured through eating habits. Knowledge can be measured through learning habits. You get what you give and a good habit will reward you while a bad habit will punish you.

We sometimes focus on one big important moment changing our life but we forget about the small moments of improvements we could do in our daily life. We think amazing results come from great planning and actions because of our focus and efforts on one huge moment of change. We begin ignoring the small habits that allow us to improve.
How many people actually try improving their life by 1%?

The second thing to think about is to find bad habits in your life and eliminate them. Before changing them, you must be aware of your actions. What do you currently do in life and why are you doing them? It gives a solution to this problem.

Adopting a good habit and breaking a bad habit can allow you to use these four laws:

How can I make it obvious?
How can I make it attractive?
How can I make it easy?
How can I make it satisfying?

Do these two simple steps: (1) decide the person you want to become, and (2) prove it to yourself with small wins.

The main issue is that there are systems that lead us to undesirable results.