Books to Make Good Habits

Making and keeping good habits is an important step to achieving your goals. The Key2Success Planner‘s Habit Tracker is a powerful tool to help you establish good habits. If you like to read and are curious about why habits are so important, we’ve compiled a list of books to help you develop good habits.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

This book is a classic for a reason! Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. Learn how to change your life through seven key habits. These habits will impact all aspects of your life. Once you learn about them and are ready to implement them, add them to your habit tracker!

High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

After extensive original research and a decade as the world’s leading high performance coach, Burchard found six deliberate habits that help individuals succeed more quickly and sustain that success longer. He identifies habits to help you accomplish more, become a better leader, learn a skill faster, and increase your sense of joy.

Make Your Bed by William McRaven

“In life you will face a lot of Circuses. You will pay for your failures. But, if you persevere, if you let those failures teach you and strengthen you, then you will be prepared to handle life’s toughest moments.” It can be tough to develop habits. McRaven, a former Navy SEAL, shares his tried and true methods of sticking to it even when times get tough.

Do It Today by Darius Foroux

Tomorrow never comes, so it’s important to do it TODAY. Foroux shares ways to overcome procrastination through habit development. Learn how to improve your productivity and achieve your goals. Discover the how’s and why’s of procrastination and how habit development can help.

The Twelve Monotasks by Thatcher Wine

Wine shares how to “Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better.” Modern life is full of to-do lists, all-consuming technology and the constant pressure to be doing and striving for more. What if you could train your brain to focus on one thing at a time? What if the secret to better productivity involved doing less, not more? Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, The Twelve Monotasks provides a clear and accessible plan for life in the twenty-first century.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

Duhigg is an award-winning business reporter that delves into the science of habits, why they exist, and how to change them. With a focus on changing in business, community, and life as a whole, we at Key2Success love this book because it fits into our philosophy that there are four areas for growth: Self, Relationship, Community, and Professional. Whatever your goals are, developing a habit that complements that goal is key.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

No list on habit development would be complete without this book by Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation. “If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t 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.” At Key2Success, we love this quote because it fits our philosophy perfectly!

Learn how to:

• make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy)
• overcome a lack of motivation and willpower
• design your environment to make success easier
• get back on track when you fall off course

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy

The title pretty much sums it up, but Hardy’s core principles that drive success involve making small changes to achieve big results. By getting rid of bad habits and establishing good habits, you can transform your life. Hardy says: “The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.”

We hope you enjoyed this list of books to help you develop good habits! The Key2Success Planning system is designed to help you achieve your goals — and habits are an important part of that system!