How many times you have set New Year resolutions only to break them within days. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. Renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions, doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone-call. He urges to transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now, by calling them atomic habits. Clears reveals how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks, like the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone and delves into cutting edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. He describes inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs and distinguished scientists who used the science of tiny habits to stay productive, motivated and happy.

These small changes will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships and your life.

Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving-every day, by revealing practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviours that lead to remarkable results.

If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem is not you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. If you get a proven system that can take you to new heights you can break any bad habits.

Clear is famous for his ability to distil complex topics into simple behaviours that can be easily applied to daily life and work. He draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Learn how to make time for new habits, overcome a lack of motivation and willpower, design your environment to make success easier, get back on track when you fall off course.

How to break a bad habit, by reducing exposure, removing the cues of your bad habits from your environment, reframe your mindset by highlighting the benefits of avoiding your bad habits, increase friction, increase the number of steps between you and your bad habits, use a commitment device, restrict your future choices to the ones that benefit you, get an accountability partner, ask someone to watch your behaviour, create a habit contract, make the costs of our bad habits public and painful. Make tiny changes obvious, attractive and easy.

Atomic Habits by James Clear, Avery – an imprint of Penguin Radom House, £6.99, 320 pages.