Tiny habits, tiny changes to your behaviour can lead to better things, right? Reward yourself for the little things, the rest can follow. This isn't a new way of thinking, just explained slightly differently to make it more accessible I feel.

A quick read really, with lots of padding to describe a point or offer examples.

Don't try and change everything at once, do a tiny little change and aim slow as it will work better in the long run. Useful but a bit plodding in terms of its advice.

This is an excellent easy read book that talks a lot of sense. It's the sort of book that you finish and realise you've highlighted loads of it. I know most of it is "common sense" but that doesn't mean it isn't worth spending time thinking about. It focusses on "MAP", three elements that help you to develop better behaviours over time. Learning about "Motivation, Ability, and Prompt" helped me to see why I usually fail in improving myself. One of these is missing and you cannot achieve anything without all three being present.

The author makes the stages clear and there are stories and research to back up the ideas. I found it helpful and I will revisit this book when I feel a need to change something that I'm not happy with. It can be adapted for many professional and personal goals and is worth picking up if you've failed to manage your New Year Resolutions into February.

Recommended if you think you cannot change or if you think that change is too difficult for you.

I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review.

A fascinating look at how to improve your life in very small steps! I like the ideas that just changing one very small thing can gradually snowball. it also stresses the fact that what you think you want to change may not be the case, or at least not the first thing that needs to change, certainly something to think about and implement!

If you're like me, your first thought when you pick up this book will be it's the same stuff that I've read before just rehashed. Actually, no it's not. It's actually refreshingly different. The book's concept is simple but to most people, myself included, it's actually not obvious until you read it in this book. All you need to do is make tiny changes, and they really are ridiculously tiny. This is something that absolutely anyone can do; there really are no excuses. Keep consistent with this and tiny and insignificant will begin to grow big. That's it. Read this easy to follow book, follow the advice and you will break and/or disrupt your habits. Simples!

Many thanks to Netgalley and TBC for a copy of this ARC for which I have given my voluntary and unbiased review.

Written with authority and confidence, but easy to read and understand. I think this book might just change my life.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’m both attracted to and repelled by self-help books. I love the idea of being given a recipe for change but I hate reading all the psycho-babble which, inevitably, builds it into a book.
Tiny Habits has a reasonable ‘exercise to waffle’ ratio, persuasive anecdotes and a positive tone.
If you’re looking to make changes in your life, and are finding it hard to stick to your resolutions, this book is worth a try.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this arc.

This book is all about changing one small thing and then building on that to make it become a habit.

When I was first reading this I did think that we didn’t need more than one paragraph to explain this method. He does go into a bit more detail than I first thought that he would. I expected that this method would just apply for exercising, losing weight, eating healthier etc. He actually gives examples of how this can apply to getting other people to do things, such as a teenager to clean up after themselves. This is also useful in a work environment as well as helping to deal with other people’s actions towards you. There are some helpful charts and diagrams to help put the Tiny Habits method into practice.

I did read this cover to cover in order to review this book but I am hoping to put the method into practice very soon.

Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg is a super book full of great hints and tips to help make for a better life.

I enjoyed the fact that you look at more than the habit with your ideas and faults before picking up on his tiny habits and nurturing them.

A book you will go back to time and again.

Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House for the ARC Copy.

If you don't read a "self help" book is it even January?!

As a creature of habit (always use the same toilet at work, have my preferred knife and fork) I was interested to read this book to try and set up more beneficial habits. It didn't disappoint, I will be taking away some of the ideas and trying to incorporate them into my daily life.

A very interesting book, great for dipping in to. Filled with sage advice and written in a sensible and easily read way. Would be a good addition to anyone’s non fiction or self help bookshelf.

I am pleased to report that this is not your usual self help book. Nothing revolutionary just small changes, advice on how to stick to them and reasons why we don't always succeed. Be kind to yourself is the message.

An inspirational book that I started to read some two weeks after New Year Resolutions. Now I know why they fail every year as I have never looked at the whole behaviour package in the way that BJ Fogg, the author, does.
The exercises throughout helped me to see the errors in my thinking and I am now ready to start again.

At first I thought this was a book on behavioral science. I soon discovered that it is more of a self help book, albeit a rather unusual one: it provides behaviors and routines for those who lack self discipline in their own private lives. Inevitably, this means that it is in part a book for those who want to lose weight but is much more than that. It teaches strategies for those who wish to give up bad habits and methods by which good but demanding habits can part of everyday life.
In the past no great willpower was necessary for the average citizen to live his or her life. The daily routine was ordained by position in society, family or work. For most people there were no difficult choices. The majority of the population either worked or starved. Others looked after children and home until exhausted. People haven't changed but the world has. Now the consequences for a lack of self control are far less drastic and the temptations we have to overcome so much greater. The author goes out of his way not to criticize or admonish those who could benefit from his ideas.. His methods are subtle and clever and are a sort of mental ju-jitsu to boost self control and help those who lack motivation.
Ironically, there is one obvious flaw. This is not an easy book to read despite the author's obvious attempts to make it so. I suspect he is a highly interesting motivational speaker. It should be noted that it is much more difficult to read the book on a Kindle that in a paper copy because it is more difficult to flick back a few chapters to remind oneself of a method he has described earlier. But the fact is that that motivational books have a very high rate of not being finished. I suspect that the very people who could most benefit from this book are the least likely to read it to the end.

I have read similar books to BJ Fogg's 'Tiny Habits', Habit Stacking' by SJ Scott amongst several others. So on the one hand I would say there is nothing massively innovative in this book. On the other hand, BJ Fogg does the topic very well. I have learned things from this book, and it has reframed my perspective. I hope it will stick. The basic premise is that we make changes to our lives with tiny behaviours. These will evolve over time causing ripples of wider improvement in our lives. Two things I particularly like: one, he almost totally removes motivation from the picture. Motivation is intrinsically cyclical - so we dont have to feel bad when it's not there. Two, he argues that habits can stay tiny if we want them to and they should be celebrated on their own terms.

The second half of the book is a bit of a drag as having made a series of points in an individual context, he then reiterates them all in a business or family context. This is a bit much. But overall it's a useful and well written volume, which I will return to.

Inventive, smart and simple.
This book describes a method of breaking down behaviours into easy steps. It also looks at getting away from guilt and negative feelings when you fail and turning it into something more positive.
The writing was easy to follow and the diagrams further illustrated the points made.
The methods in this book can be applied to all areas of your life and this makes it versatile and adaptable.
A self help book like I have not read before and definitely recommended.
Thanks you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read in return for review.

I very rarely read 'self-help' type books. However, when I received an email about Tiny Habits, I was intrigued as it was a method I was already trying to implement in my life. So when I started reading Tiny Habits, I knew this was the method for me. Fogg explains so many things I've fallen victim of in the past - things like the 'motivational wave' where you decide to make drastic changes only to completely fall off the wagon a week later.

I have nothing but praise for this book if you are trying to implement changes in your life (e.g. flossing your teeth, working out, or making big life decisions) and are struggling to find a method that works.

I went straight out and bought a hardcopy of this book so I could annotate it and refer to other sections more easily. I can see me coming back to this book and method for years to come.

Great book to start off the new year, new year. It’s pretty self explanatory, making smaller changes in life are easier to stick to them going full steam ahead and trying to change the bits you dislike all in a day. My only complaint is I read it first via kindle, it’s had diagrams and charts that are better suited to the paperback. Over all a good self help read.

I haven't reached the end of this book yet.  In fact I'm only a third of the way through.  However I've read enough to be able to give my thoughts on what I have read so far.

I've read other books using the Mini habit idea such as Stephen Guise's Mini Habits. (to make the author feel a bit better I never finished that book either)  For a serious procrastinator like me (or is it just an excuse for laziness?) the idea of mini habits really appeals.  I generally need a kick up the backside to get anything done and can so easily find an excuse not to do something.  This is why I keep buying these books, in the hope that magically by reading a "how to" book I'm going to make some amazing transformation.

Like all self help books, this one is no exception in that it constantly tries to sell you the idea, reiterating over and over why it works.  I just wish someone would write a book with step by step instructions on what to do to change.  Some of the ideas in here are just too complicated to the extent I can't remember all the labels put on ideas.  There are lots of flow charts and what I see as complicated steps to achieve a simple task of getting started on something.  This is why I haven't finished the book.  Every time I pick it up, read a few more pages I feel like I'm just re-reading what I've already read.  I don't want lots of real life examples of how these ideas worked for other people, I take the authors word for it that if you follow the steps it will work, I don't need to keep being convinced of it.

Honestly I would be really happy with a book that maybe only contains 50 pages but gets straight to the point and helps me achieve something, rather than a book with 300 pages that I lose interest in and never finish.

I will stick with it because I like the authors thinking behind why we so often fail to keep a new habit going.  I think the best idea is to go back to the beginning of the book and work through it step by step.  It is too dry to be able to read from beginning to end in one go.  Working through the ideas and putting them into practice as I read is probably the best way to use this book.

One thing I did notice.  If you buy this book, it is well worth investing the little extra for the paperback version rather than in e-format.  The graphics are very difficult to see on a Kindle. Even when you enlarge the graphic I still struggled to make out the text - I had to use a magnifying glass!  In the end I couldn't even be bothered trying to decipher the text in these graphics but I'm sure they are perfectly legible in the paperback version, possibly even using an e-reader app on a tablet but for the Kindle, it just doesn't work.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book. I will post this review to Good Reads and Amazon. I will also add it to my book review blog in the very near future to coincide with it being a new year, new decade, new start!

Great book for the New Year. Felt really motivated to make small changes from the first few chapters. However, I did then find it all a bit overegged. A bit over-complicated. Dare I say it, a bit too American. However, I would recommend it as it contains lots of motivating thoughts and is very positive in attitude.