Habits

9 Mindful Habits for Well-Being by Nate Klemp who is co-author of Start Here: A Groundbreaking, Science-Based Program for Emotional Fitness which I highly recommend for its offering of practical wellness strategies. This article combines aspects of PERMAH, Character Strengths, mindfulness, and guided meditations to offer a menu of healthy habits that one can build. 

Atomic Habits by James Clear. Visit his website which is loaded with resources including his weekly newsletter. Interview at the Rich Roll Podcast.

Deliberate Practice article by James Clear. This article gets more at skills one might wish to improve upon through focused and intentional practice. 

Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood. Visit her survey and strategies listing website. Interview at The Psychology Podcast. 

Habit Formation Tools by Nir Eyal, author of Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Use timeboxing to schedule into your calendar specific dates/times to engage the habits that you are working on. A companion strategy is to use a habit tracker to document your habit formation efforts. The Coach.me app is one such habit tracker that you might want to try. 

An article on the strategy of Habit Stacking is not written by an expert in the field. It is authored by an editor of the Well+Good website. The FS Blog offers helpful strategies. The information does connect to the work of James Clear and B.J. Fogg. 

Motivation and Goal Setting blog post based on information from the folks at Positive Psychology. 

Personal Goal Setting That Really Works is not written by an expert in the field. It is authored by a contributor to the Better Humans website that offers insight to support human potential. The author does draw on leaders in the field to apply her personal approach to make following through on goals more doable. We know that forming habits usually involves some goal setting.  

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Visit his listing of downloadable strategies on his website. Interview at The Psychology Podcast. 

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg. Access Dr. Fogg's Behavior Grid and his Behavior Wizard tool. 

What Does It Really Take To Build a New Habit article from the Harvard Business Review. Differentiates between routines and habits. Brings in the terminology of "nudges" to make incremental change.