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What are your atomic habits?

August 24, 2025 01:03AM
Atomic Habits is a great book.
But, I think all my little habits fell by the wayside lately. I better pick one to work on.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
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August 24, 2025 01:23AM
Atomic habits and the bible, both are bunk.
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August 24, 2025 02:12AM
grinning smiley Atomic? Have not read that book. Practical? Definitely! I have begun using audio and e-audiobooks on my phone more often. Oldies, such as classics in the public domain, are on one app. The library has numerous and newer resources. The Bible is on an app that has features for reading, listening, and studying. You can choose among versions and even set a timer within the app for each session! All these resources are free.

Is this atomic because I am hands free while learning, enjoying, thinking, working, working out, etc. and have no excuse to procrastinate?

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)


Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2025 03:00AM by Shop-et-al.
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August 24, 2025 05:17AM
Thank you. I am guessing that my little change, to more extensive use of e-audio materials, counts as atomic. This little change makes my reading/listening/learning/amusement/working/working out/etc. easy to fit into each day and into most places. I actually do more of what is important now than I did when I was reading the tangible books almist exclusively.

This consistent action is the way to achieve lasting change, which is the basis of the atomic change process. Right?

I heard prince's concern. It could be easy to attempt too many changes, or implement contradictory or conflicting changes. I did not set out to do anything atomic; i just found one way to incorporate my little set of activies more consistently. Anywayyyy, i have added the book to my list of books to read in due time.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2025 05:18AM by Shop-et-al.
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August 24, 2025 10:09AM
hmmmm not sure I have any....I focus more on attitude than behavior....lol it all falls into place that way....but doesn't sell any books. I am sure the author is enjoying his rewards lol.
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August 24, 2025 01:23PM
@paniconmon wrote:

Two books about attitude had a profound effect on me many years ago. But I'll opt not to share smiling smiley. 0 FOR 3

I couldn't help but notice a byline on the book, "... and break bad ones." In some ways, I regret posting on the forums. AND YET, THE POSTS WERE PROLIFIC. We all see things through different lenses and perspectives. It has a different effect on us. YEAH, LETS NOT GET INTO HOW IT EFFECTS YOU BEAVIS.

In short, to kick a bad habit, I will only visit MSF once every quarter smiling smiley HOLD THE PHONE, ISN’T ‘KICK’ SYNONYMOUS WITH ‘QUIT FOR GOOD?’ JUST ASK THAT YOUR NEXT INCARNATION NEXT QUARTER ISN’T AS A MS ‘NEWBIE’ WITH A PENCHANT FOR CONTRIBUTING SEXUAL DOUBLE ENTEDRES. When I took a long break, it felt so liberating. ‘FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY….Maybe that's why some of the wiser ones eventually leave, or not. Who knows? DOES ANYONE ELSE FIND THIS INSULTING? PLEASE, BY ALL MEANS, CONSIDER YOURSELF A WISER ONE AND CONVENE WITH THE REST OF THEM. I’M SURE THEY’RE ALSO VICTIMS WHO DOLED OUT P/A POT SHOTS EVEN THOUGH NOBODY WAS MEAN TO THEM.

Shop-et-al and prince, please continue to mind General Chat at your leisure. Your tolerance and attitude are far superior to mine smiling smiley. AGREED.

Additionally, I'll let you return to your original programming of politically charged discussions in the General Chat of MSF. Have fun smiling smiley
. THAT WOULD MEAN CARING ABOUT SOMETHING ‘OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF’ AND COMMENTING ON IT IN EITHER AN INTELLIGENT, SILLY OR OTHERWISE, WAY. IT WOULDN'T REVOLVE AROUND YOU. GASP! IN ANY EVENT, MORE ‘FUN’ AND ENTERTAINING THAN THE ‘BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD’ SHOW.
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August 24, 2025 06:09PM
Oh my.

I never would have envisioned this - that because someone has a different point of view, a view soooo very impersonal, that it would lead to door slamming.

In the words of Beto O'Rourke:

“If you’re thin-skinned, you’re probably not going to last very long in anything that involves public opinion.”

Best wishes Okie.
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August 24, 2025 06:37PM
@paniconmon - But you are really @Okie - that has returned to pretend to be someone else.
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August 24, 2025 06:48PM
I realize I am way too subtle for many posters here and probably hard to define and yes, that could come across as contradictory at times, but you know what? so what? either respond or keep scrolling. No drama necessary. My posts don't take jabs at anyone but me.
So far I've only had to defend the truth against one poster here and only because he/she was turning everything into an attack on the truth...better to debate the point, not the person. That's what real maturity is. I only asked you refrain from sidetracking my posts with teenage boy toilet humor.

Again Okie or whoever you are, best wishes in the future.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2025 07:34PM by BarefootBliss.
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August 24, 2025 07:52PM
BF ~ best to say who you are referring to so as not to confuse people. If you get in the mix, then you’re kind of expected to at least do that. Otherwise your posts are too esoteric.
Okie tries to act like I don’t get under his skin, but I do. It probably goes back to when he was ‘Service Award.’ He launched a vicious attack on me as a newbie over something as benign as my idea of an Ipshitz class action lawsuit. He tried to get me booted then, which only resulted in an artfully crafted smackdown that he won’t soon forget. He needs to learn how to let go and not try to control things here.
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August 24, 2025 09:50PM
pani, did any one of those folks ask you for your opinion of them? I didn't read that in any of their comments. Did you fall into a wingnut info silo and can't find your way out?
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August 25, 2025 01:18AM
feel free to toggle me pani, if me explaining my reasons for doing what I do is so offensive to you. And I have no idea what Shop-et-al posts, I have them toggled, I can't see their posts, and I don't want to. fork you very much.

I've never solicited sympathy or empathy from anyone, for that matter. I do often share too much, that is just me, I have always been that way.
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August 25, 2025 01:25AM
I totally forgot that I mentioned that book here, I think it was in context of not counting the time I spent between photographing my meal and leaving the fast food place because I bring a book and stack the habit of reading non-fiction on top of the habit of MS.

One of my habits is to go out once a week (usually Tuesday morning) for a relatively long drive to a variety of coffee places and do my weekly review/brainstorming session. Sometimes it's 20 minutes away, sometimes it's 50 minutes away. Now I'm trying to stack at least one MS stop on the way home, even if it's just a $5 Field Agent end cap compliance audit. Which is why I'm online and meandering through here on a Sunday night.
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August 25, 2025 04:33AM
Hey y'all. Thank you for your attention to this matter. If Pani is Okie, I am fine with that even though I didn't correlate the two identities.They are kind. I honestly don't understand how Atomic Habits is controversial. It is a great book I listened to it on ebook and gifted it to my three children. Shop et all is a wonderful human as is Barefoot and Mineme. Let's not allow the divisiveness in our current environment to muddy our forum group. You are all wonderful and helpful with the exception of a couple who "will not be named." Blessings.
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August 25, 2025 10:29AM
So another atomic habit is spending too much time online, generally. At the end of this week (presumably) I will know what to change in other areas- and end up offline, more productive, and free of unanticipated additional time-oriented issues. Ironically, I found my way to getting up reeaaallly early in the morning and loving both the morning and early activity many years ago, and long before I found General Chat and the notion of Atomic Habits. Recently, I found an oldie but goodie principle of change from Arnold Bennett. His recommended change was to get up earlier in the morning and apply the beneficial changes in one's personal and work lives. I already do this! And, the internet happened between publication of Bennett's helpful book and General Chat. It is possible that changes can reverberate in beneficial and not-so-good ways. Me? I need to manage my time on the internet. It is too much of a good thing. YMMV.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
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August 25, 2025 11:40AM
ATOMIC!

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