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Effectiveness of Mini Habits

Pros:

• "This book has totally turned things around for me."
• "The “stupid, simple” mini habits and the understanding behind them has helped me stop being frustrated and make productive and successful progress on my goals."
• "Since starting this book, I read every day."
• "I'm now on day 57 of maintaining several habits in the morning."
• "I can totally do this. And I have already started."
• "It's been a little over a month I believe since I've implemented the books teachings, and I've stuck to my mini habit requirements mostly everyday!"
• "Mini Habits work. Here's my proof: For many years, I was a regular exerciser."

Cons:

• "I have been applying mini habits to many of my daily things, but there are a couple it doesn't work on like drinking enough water."
• "This repetition of one push up or writing 50 words etc is extreming boring."
• "Got tired of it towards the end."
• "It is right to emphasize how effective the mini habit is. Just not keep repeating it."
• "The physical integrity of the book is absolutely dissatisfying. Each and every time I turned a page it came loose from the binding."
• "This book is not well written and it goes over and over the same thing I was hopeful that something good was coming out at the end. But no it did not. Boring!"
• "Haven’t started reading the book yet. Mine went from page 6 to page 13, somehow missing 7-12."

Impact on Personal Development

Pros:

• "This book should be taught at schools. Businesses. Everywhere."
• "I highly recommend this book to anyone who has had a hard time achieving their goals and developing good habits."
• "I am someone who has read many self-help books and I think this one is very special."
• "I got a new job & my boss recommended this book. I was in a slump attempting to get out. I NEVER read, I finished the whole book and I have habits I carry on every day almost mindlessly."
• "I think Stephen may have hit upon the single most effective actionable tip on success I have ever seen."
• "Since reading this book I have made several positive changes in my life."
• "This book will change your mind about change."

Cons:

• "I would try to declutter, and also try to clean my garage out, AND plant flowers in my yard at the same time while performing my daily routine. Guess what happened? I would give up. Feel like a failure."
• "Unfortunately, I break some of his rules with my habit strategies, like choosing big hairy audacious habits to start like read a book a day for my podcast."
• "I'm giving his strategies a try, with some deviations strongly discouraged by the author."
• "I usually don't read self help books, but this one intrigued me."
• "If I set that goal low then I will not drink more and that's that."
• "I still remain skeptical to the system but it's so easy to try, so why not?"
• "Um...Not really impressed. Like he wrote a whole book about just consistently taking baby-steps and doing SOMETHING rather than nothing."

Writing Style and Readability

Pros:

• "Very easy read. Concept seems simple yet effective."
• "This book was very good at putting into words on how to create doable simple habits."
• "Great read! Really enjoyed the author's writing style and learned many insights."
• "Mini Habits is written in a way that can not only help the reader, but also help the reader help others too."
• "I love his style of writing and his totally different way of addressing the problem of forming habits."
• "Author makes change seem possible, plausible, less frightening."
• "Good useful information and approach to goal setting and in creating motion."

Cons:

• "The author does tend to repeat the concepts over and over."
• "At times it seemed he was making too much use of collected data."
• "Overall I think the mini habit is a great way to overcome resistance to forming new habits. However it did get a bit redundant at times."
• "If you take the time to read it in a single chunk of time, the concepts and examples given may seem somewhat repetitive."
• "It can be a little repetitive and wordy in my opinion."
• "Small message expanded into a book."
• "The first part of the book was a bit technically and a little dry."