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Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results Kindle Edition
***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!
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- Publication dateDecember 22, 2013
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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
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| Description | New! Use mini habits to upgrade your relationship with exercise in 60 days. It's better than a short-term fitness program because it changes the way you feel about exercising. | 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. |
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"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)
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Blog: stephenguise.com
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- ASIN : B00HGKNBDK
- Publisher : Selective Entertainment LLC
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : December 22, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 3.2 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 126 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0996435420
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 1 of 3 : Mini Habits
- Best Sellers Rank: #441,402 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #232 in Motivational Management & Leadership
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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.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseMini Habits
The book Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise is based on the story of how the author discovered that mini habits work better than traditional big habits. For ten years the author tried many different personal development systems, to build significant daily habits that would help him achieve his fitness and writing goals, and had no success. One night in desperation he decided upon a mini habits - just one push-up a day. To his surprise this mini habit empowered him to do more and more push-ups and to ultimately develop fitness habits that helped him achieve his goals.
His surprising results with mini habits inspired him to research why they worked so well in achieving major results. The author’s personal experiences with a motivational approach to achievement was that to be motivated to work on a goal, it had to be big enough to be exciting, like running five miles a day or writing 2000 words a day. The daily tasks required to achieve the goals took so much willpower to start that he never had the energy to get started, much less start a new habit. Without “motivation” he could not get anything done.
Researchers have discovered that to be motivated to achieve a goal, which requires habit formation, the goal has to be big enough to get people excited. For many people just coming up with a big “exciting” goal was enough of an accomplishment. Having the goal was a reward enough and they no longer felt the need to actually accomplish it. Those who tried to accomplish a big goal which required developing new habits that took a lot of energy and willpower had a very negative experience and feeling of failure when the goal was not achieved. The result was a huge resistance to developing new habits and a negative experience every time forming new habits was attempted yet not accomplished.
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 experience by doing it each day. Even though the mini-habit is ridiculously small, it provides a positive sense of accomplishment and encouragement. It is important not to increase the mini-habit goal so that it remains easy to do. The mini-habit doesn’t require much energy to start so there is more energy to do the work.
The author suggests taking at least a month to see if mini-habits will work for you. I tried the mini-goal the author had, to write 50 words a day on a book I have been working for a year about what I have learned about cancer that I think everyone should know. The first few weeks the mini-goal seemed to help a little, but now that I have been doing it for 6 weeks it seems to be helping a lot. It not only helped with writing the book, but it contributed to me focusing the content and scope of the book. Instead of trying to explain the historical models of cancer and how recent discoveries are finding them to be wrong, I am focusing on the stunning new discoveries and the success of non-toxic cancer treatments. Last week I wrote more in a day than I have since high school.
I feel using mini-goals is helping me achieve my goals. If you want to try a new way to accomplish things try out mini-goals. I highly recommend this book - Five Stars.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2013Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI'm a chronic procrastinator. I'm consistently pinned to my chair, half laying in it and mumbling about not being able to do anything. If I even think about doing something I really want to do, I have a difficult time raising just my hand. I'm an expert at not doing anything, and wasting time. I always thought big, too big. Even other time wasters were difficult to do, like playing games or watching tv shows. 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.
I started simple, 1 push up a day. 1 minute walking outside. Read 1 page a day. 24 days have passed since I've started (I read the blog first of all, that's how I've learnt the concept). Everyday a success.
My 1 push up is still growing, but I've consistently do bonus reps. My "read 1 page a day" has resulted in completing 7 books in roughly 3 weeks. My 1 minute walk outside changed into me conquering my fear of darkness which has been with me my entire life. I go out twice now for two walks, and I run back from them. Once when it's still light and once in the dark. My fear of dark has completely gone, I feel like I'm a completely different person now. I'm proud of my self. And all this from just walking outside for 1 minute.
Mini habits will teach you what you need to know to get along with your brain, and leverage the power of habits. It'll tell you how to get there step by step. Understanding is key here, because it's easy to make a blunder, like increasing your requirements when they should stay "stupid small". The book has everything you need. It'll give you the science, and help you along your first steps. Once you know what you're doing, you'll have no trouble growing on your own.
Like they say: Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
This book will teach you how to fish.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019Format: KindleVerified PurchaseThis 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!
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VinkyReviewed in India on May 18, 20245.0 out of 5 stars The most practical book on building sustainable habits
"Mini Habits" by Steven Guise stands as one of the most practical and valuable books I've ever read on the subject of habit formation. While I've delved into numerous books on the topic, none have quite managed to capture the essence and importance of building sustainable habits like "Mini Habits" does.
The strength of the book lies in its approachable and realistic strategies. Guise doesn’t propose grandiose changes, but rather promotes the idea of taking small, manageable steps towards achieving your goals. These 'mini habits' are the foundation upon which larger, lasting habits can be built.
What sets "Mini Habits" apart is Guise's ability to provide relatable examples and tangible advice that can be applied to daily life. There's no abstract theory or unattainable suggestions here, rather it's a book filled with realistic guidance that can be implemented by anyone, regardless of their current habits or lifestyle.
If you, like me, have read numerous books on habit formation but still find yourself struggling to maintain and build upon your habits, I wholeheartedly recommend "Mini Habits". It is a game-changer, offering a fresh perspective and practical tools that can truly make a difference in your habit-building journey.
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José E.Reviewed in Mexico on October 31, 20215.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro.
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseLa 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.
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EliseReviewed in France on December 2, 20155.0 out of 5 stars Très bon livre!!
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseEn résumé, ce livre invite ses lecteurs à accomplir quelques mini-habits (« mini-habitude ») environ 3 par jour, dans les domaines que l''individu souhaite améliorer (ex/condition physique, relation sociale, travail...).
Même si l''auteur explique bien sur le plan théorique ce qui sous-tend l''intérêt de mettre en place ces mini-habits, il s''agit essentiellement d''une approche pragmatique, concrète qui a pour but d''entrainer des changements de comportements (même minimes au début, il s'agit d'ailleurs d'un des points particulièrement intéressant de ce livre), qui s'accompagneront alors de changements dans nos pensées et nos émotions. L''auteur explique bien ce concept de mini-habits et j''ai trouvé le tout cohérent, référencé et clairement expliqué.
Assez facile à lire en anglais je pense (même si c''est dommage qu''il ne soit pas traduit en français), mais je ne regrette pas du tout de ne pas avoir attendu une éventuelle traduction qui ne viendra peut-être jamais, surtout que l''auteur explique plusieurs fois, à différents moments du livre, les mêmes concepts, donc finalement j''ai l''impression d'avoir compris l''essentiel'...
Et pour finir sur une note positive: ça marche vraiment' et c''est bien là le plus important avec un livre de « self-help ». Pour moi, vraiment très très bien, à essayer!!!
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adelinaReviewed in Brazil on December 29, 20195.0 out of 5 stars Boa proposta!
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA 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!
JamesReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 20155.0 out of 5 stars Simple. Effective. Try it.
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseIt works. Seriously. I followed the method throughout the book and have a wicked streak of days completing my desired tasks. Some days finish with the minimum results and some are with lots of extras but I am forming habits and doing well. Nothing ever worked for me and i was a terrible procrastinator. I used the technique with some free habit apps to track my progress and it's a great feeling to see your success laid out before you. Stephen is spot on with his technique and I highly recommend this book. It is well written, funny and informative. Thanks Stephen.





























