Status Updates From Better Than Before: Masteri...

Half way through
I’m on section 3: the best time to begin

I have to return it to the library

"Many Obligers feel a powerful sense of obligation to be good role models."

So far, some good practical information..

I finally have this book back! I left off at 51% when it was due

I finally have this book back! I left off at 51% when it was due

I believe that I'm an obliger! It seems to fit me so well... Definitely scary and odd to think about

Too derivative and I didn’t like the white girl privilege that underscored almost everything. The 4 temperaments info was the most helpful.

As always Gretchen Rubin is such a perfectionist. I can't keep up with her ways to organize things to make her life better, Sometimes I think she's way too busy organizing things until she forgets to enjoy the moment.

I'm at least putting a pin in this at 24% 2:15:28.

Good advice for habit keeping, not so much in terms of healthy eating

Good advice for habit keeping, not so much in terms of healthy eating

7 h 25 min left, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

"Because we're quite susceptible to 'goal contagion,' we may rapidly pick up someone else's habits, so it's helpful to be around people who are good role models."

Lost interest and not sure if it's worth picking back up. I did enjoy her earlier books.

Overviewed; on page xi

Hard truth right here:

"For most of us, the real aim isn't to enjoy a few pleasures right now, but to build habits that will make us happy over the long term. Sometimes, that means giving up something in the present, or demanding more from ourselves."

"It's a Secret of Adulthood: Make sure the things we do to make ourselves feel better don't make us feel worse."


FYI I'm pretty sure you could make a daily calendar with all of the "Secrets of Adulthood" contained in this book. ;)

I have forgotten that I was reading book some ways back. Browsed through chapters I finished and just started where I left off.

I have forgotten that I was reading book some ways back. Browsed through chapters I finished and just started where I left off.

WARNING: this book contains stealth diet talk and an underlying certainty that the authors’s food decisions would work for everyone. Not quite fat-shaming but very close.

Fun and informative so far. I love all the breakdowns of how you can identify your personality quirks or behaviors and use them to your advantage in habit building.

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself.

I realized that one way to deprive myself without creating a feeling of deprivation is to deprive myself totally.

What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.

Going to leave this unfinished

Keeping up is easier than catching up.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I’m chugging along. But so much of this is very pretentious and I’m having trouble getting by it.

Disc 2 track 4

Very good!