Small Steps

5.0

Big changes hold until Thursday, then a late meeting arrives. This book builds your week out of moves small enough to survive it.

Soft floral backdrop behind the cover of Small Steps
Front cover of the book Small Steps

Pages

184

Reading time

4 hours

Category

Habits

Published

Big changes hold until Thursday. Then a late meeting arrives and the whole thing goes. A week built out of small moves survives that meeting. This is a short book about building that week.

What you will walk away with

A habit small enough to keep

How to shrink a change until it fits the worst day of your week, then let it grow from there.

A trigger you already have

Attaching the new thing to something you do anyway, so remembering stops being the hard part.

A way to restart without starting over

What to do on the day you miss, so one gap does not end the run.

Who it is for

Anyone who has started the same routine four times. If you keep a habit for two weeks and never longer, start here.

Thank you all <3

Readers, three months later

Readers, three months later

  • I’d started four books this year and finished none of them. I read this one in two sittings, then finally finished the thing I’d been avoiding since January.

    Sarah Chen

    Reader in Toronto

  • I stopped checking my phone before I got out of bed. That one change has done more for my mood than anything else I’ve tried.

    Photo of the reader who left this quote

    Maya Ellis

    Reader in Bristol

  • I read the chapter on saying no twice. My evenings are mine again, and my family noticed before I did.

    Priya Raman

    Reader in Leeds

  • Bought one. Read it in a weekend. Bought the rest that Monday. Three years later I still reread the chapter on finishing every January.

    Nina Alvarez

    Reader in Mexico City

  • I’ve read every book like this. It’s the first one that didn’t make me feel behind. It made me feel like I could start.

    Lina Torres

    Reader in Madrid

  • It didn’t hand me a system. It took three things off my plate and explained why they were there. I’ve been calmer ever since.

    Grace Okafor

    Reader in Lagos

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