This book really spoke to me - as a busy working mum I constantly feel like I am 'drowning'.... however, the concept of 'Tiny Habits' really helped me to stop, look at what needed to be done and break it down into manageable actions that I could easily do and then build on.

Would highly reccommend for both personal and business life!

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Brilliantly simple ideas, practical examples which are straightforward to apply. “People change best by feeling good not by feeling bad” Loved this.

This is a great book for changing habits and understanding how to get there, in easy, adjustable steps. I really enjoyed it,,. and I've worked through a lot of self-help books.
Most of all, it's nuturing and helps you grow into your habits without making it too difficult to get there.

I like a good step-by-step guide, because I am all about achievable goal-setting.
So this seemed perfect. But in the end, unfortunately, I felt that the book was a little too simplistic. Tiny habits is about breaking down a good habit you want to add to your life and making the steps so small they are achievable.
Whilst the strategy is good if you are the type of person who struggles to get into new routines or start new, good habits, it can be explained very easily and succinctly, and after the initial explanation and first examples, the book didn't hold my interest much.

This book was really interesting but I did struggle a bit with all the theory. Some great ideas that I will incorporate going forward. Worth a read definitely..

I love the idea that small steps make big differences where bad habits are concerned and I have put some of these things into practice. This is a good book in helping people become 'better' whether it's eating more healthily, becoming a better parent or moving more. Sometimes irrelevant and too specific for me but a great little book that should appeal to a wide variety of readers.

I really like the concepts that BJ comes up with in this book. It makes sense and has a much more approachable look at change.

I will definitely be trying this out to get some more good habits in my life.

My only downside to this book is that it doesn't need to be half as long as it is. When I got to the end I started skim reading. The concept is.explaoned pretty early on then repeated and overcomplicated throughout the rest of the book. For a simple concept I think it just needed a simple explanation that people can read and then quickly refer back to.

Really loved this book and many thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with an ARC version of the book. Great idea as it's so simple to put it into practice and complete with templates and references to the web for further templates.

There are three elements to this form of habit building and breaking. Find the anchor, choose a small habit and then reward yourself even if it's a small reward for completing the habit. I love the author's example of flossing one tooth after brushing your teeth. I did think during reading,. what about habits that you want to break like my personal one of eating rubbish food and then lo and behold later on in the book the author shares a case study and explains how to use a tiny habit to break the habit.

When i want to break a habit I just tell myself to take it day by day and hour by hour.
I'm going to rate this book five stars because it was so easy to read and down to earth. I will be re reading it as well.

Tiny Habits has been a benefit to read but mainly as I have now made a promise to myself to stop requesting advanced copies of self help books! I’ve read several over the last few years - all have sensible, sage advice but have any made a lasting impression or changed how I live? No, in all cases. ‘Tiny Habits' _may_ prove to be an exception but I will try and give it a chance by doing some of the exercises in the coming weeks.

Tiny Habits is full of common sense – the basic premise being to not try to achieve a habit overnight such as exercising more by running a marathon but to go slowly with a new habit. Just put your running shoes by the door for a few days in a row, maybe wear them in the house for a few days, walk to the corner in them for a few days, run 30 seconds outdoors in them for a few days. You get the picture. It’s all good advice and may work well for some but I suspect I’d get bored very quickly and demoralised that nothing was likely to change for months and months.

The author, BJ Fogg, talks a lot about his Behaviour Model B=MAP which essentially means that for a behaviour to occur it requires Motivation, Ability and a Prompt. We need to work on all three if we wish a behaviour to occur. There are lots of practical examples and graphs to help illustrate this model and how some behaviours don’t happen easily of one or more of the three factors is not strong enough. There are practical exercises to help the reader analyse their behaviours and understand how to improve Motivation, Ability and Prompt to make that behaviour happen.

I was slightly frustrated as I realised that I’d rather be reading a book about stopping habits/behaviours rather than taking them up! This was addressed towards the end of the book in the chapter ‘Untangling Bad Habits’ but not in as much detail as I would have liked.

I’m not usually bothered by American ways or culture having spent a lot of time in the USA but the chapter ‘One Hundred Ways to Celebrate and Feel Shine’ just grated on me. It was one hundred ways to encourage yourself and wire a new habit into your brain. Suggestions such as “Pump your fists and say, ‘Awesome’” and “Say , ‘Touchdown’ and raise your arms like a referee” didn't sit well and I was struggling to imagine doing most of the hundred listed. I am clearly as much of a repressed Brit as the stereotype image portrays!

Having said all this I do think this book is full of very good and practical advice – I would just like it to be a lot more concise and to focus equally on reducing bad habits as taking up good habits. There was too much repetition of the same concept for my liking. There’s an accompanying website with good, practical resources on too. I think a hardback copy would be preferable as some of the text in the graphics were hard to read on a Kindle where you can’t enlarge them easily.

With thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I thought this had some really good ideas and advice, although (as often is the case) some of it felt a bit too American for me. Also as is frequently the case, some of the ideas will be hard for me to implement because I'm a shift worker and don't have a lot of regular patterns to my day, but I got enough out of it that I didn't mind too much. I didn't always love the writing style, which felt a bit repetitive at times, but as I read it in reasonably bitesized chunks it didn't annoy me too much.

I read this slightly overlapping with Emily and Amelia Nagoski's Burnout and found them to be quite a good pair - one tells you about how to deal with your stress and this tells you how to form habits - most of which for me were about dealing with stress! Now I need to go back and do various worksheets from both of these and see what I can implement!

The premise of this book is good - to take things in small measures, setting small goals and creating tiny habits. But for me it didn't really get much beyond the premise, and it sometimes felt like it was a struggle to stretch this idea to a whole book. It is well and engagingly written, though, with a positive and friendly tone.

Not the usual type of self help book, Fogg's Tiny Habits explains how to create new habits and get rid of bad ones in very small steps. Instead of feeling guilty for not being able to change things, Fogg explains that by trying to do too much, we are sabotaging our chances of real change in our habits. He explains how to do this and then repeats it in many different ways helping to consolidate the methodology in our brains. Rather than feeling like I was being told what to do, he writes it as a suggestion to try in little steps so that we can feel successful and continue to improve our lives. I felt that I would be able to use his methods to improve my habits and add some good ones. Very interesting to read - I will need to have the physical book I think, to make it easier to re-read and bookmark salient parts.
Very well written and easy to follow - I will be recommending it to others.

A really interesting premise to make tiny changes to introduce a new habit rather than sweeping changes that will be abandoned weeks (days!) after first declaring them.
I liked the quiet, thoughtfulness of the methods described in the book and am making my list and breaking it down ready to implement my own tiny habits!

This book aims to help people change their habits with small changes that everyone can manage.

Slightly more self helpy than I imagined from the scientific basis I still found it to be an easy, accessible read.

Great book for assisting you to build new habits into your life.

These are all done in small steps, otherwise the author has discovered too much of a change and you will not stick to the new habit. For example the author wanted to floss his teeth, so instead of doing all of them, he started off with just one tooth and increased it as it became a daily habit.

Definitely an interesting book to read and helps you set up your new habits quite easily.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

Have your New Year’s Resolutions fallen by the wayside already? Or, are you gritting your teeth and battling on, quietly unsure that the goal is bringing any benefits? I’ve been in both places; I’ve learned what doesn’t really work for me: grand goals, constant need for willpower, all the advice about joining a group, and many many other things. I’m guessing a few of you might well be in the same boat.

Step forward Tiny Habits. I cannot begin to tell you the ‘yes!’ I had when I started reading about this approach: if I could have condensed my own thoughts about life improving habits I could only have hoped to have written this book!

The author, a researcher at Stanford University, has developed the Fogg Behavior Model, where Behavior (or, the habit you want to develop) = motivation + ability + prompt. BMAP. Fogg Behaviour Model graph of ability against motivation

Simply put, the harder you find something to do, the more motivation you’re going to need, and conversely you won’t need to find as much motivation to do a task you find easy. To get a habit to form, you need the behaviour to be above that ‘action line’.

I can’t do the idea justice, but the book walks you through it wonderfully. Motivation isn’t going to work long-term, so finding ways to make the behaviour easier is key – and making the habit ‘tiny’ is an excellent approach. For instance, do just 2 push ups. That will most likely grow, but as long as you do 2 the habit will form – far more likely than if you set the bar as, say, 50, and watch as you make excuses to get out of it.

The book opens with some great insight into why we find it hard to do things, what drives our behaviour in general. It then breaks down the elements of the BMAP – motivation and matching, ability, using different kinds of prompts to remind yourself to carry out the habit.

As well as loads of useful, chatty case studies, there are several exercises such as the ‘Swarm of B(ehaviour)s’ designed to help you set up your own experiment in behaviour design. And that mindset of ‘experimentation’ is pushed strongly: no beating yourself up when something doesn’t work, you just have to modify the experiment design. It’s refreshingly helpful and kind.

Later chapters cover growing or multiplying your habits, changing with others – family, colleagues, groups (whether overtly or in a more ninja-style ;)), and for me an important chapter on reversing some of the approaches to tackle bad habits.

Overall, I loved this book. I tried not to rush through it, and already want to read it again taking notes (tough to do on the bus!) and rather than just trying bits and pieces (working so far!) absolutely give the entire process a go to see how far it can take me in improving my habits! I have very high hopes – it’s my kind of book!

I never read books like this in one go as they are more of a textbook than an ordinary read, so have "dipped" in and out of it. This is definitely NOT a "read this and your life will change overnight" book; rather it seeks to encourage the reader to achieve change by making (as the title infers) many small changes and learning new habits.

I will return to this book again.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC.

I found this to be a very complicated read but also useful. At times I had to reread some of the sentences to make sense of what was being said. It all makes sense once you have read the whole book. I don't know if this would be a book for everyone but it had some useful tips in it

Reminded me of the content of another book which focuses on habits and effective ways of building them so was interested to see whether there were any novel ideas to expand on my original knowledge, similar type of approach really but still good to read

I always love this kind of book, maybe not as a traditional read it all in one go but I do find books like this are great to come back to when you need to solve a problem. I love that the book has exercises for you to follow with a variety of examples too. Even reading through there were some examples that I thought I’d put a note inside as it might be helpful in the future. Resourceful as one big read - loved the way it was set out and with drawings throughout. It’s also great as a book to come back to when you need help with productivity or just reset after setting new goals.