My summary:

The premise of Atomic Habits by James Clear is that small habit changes can equal great results over time. As described in the beginning, the concepts in this book are designed to help you fulfill your potential. It discusses strategies and the reasoning behind those strategies to help anyone make easy, effective, and lasting changes in all areas of life. 

My thoughts:

This is overall a fantastic book. It’s simple to understand. The concepts are easy to apply. Great real-life applications are given throughout the book. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to make positive change in their life or reinforce newly established habits in the long term. 

This unabridged version is narrated by the author and I really enjoy that I’m hearing him reading me the book. It almost feels like I’m sitting at a table with him and we’re just discussing how to improve life by building positive habits. 

I really don’t love reading nonfiction or self help books. I have a hard time finishing them (maybe there’s a self help book for that?!). I read most of this book years ago but never actually finished it. So I figured listening to it as an audiobook would be a great way to finally finish it. Although I checked out a bit mentally here and there and had to rewind a bit it places, I feel like I got a lot out of listening to it.