Elastic Habits: How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day

From the author of Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results, the international bestseller in 18 languages, comes a smarter approach to habit building.

Habits That Bend Don’t Break

Most people associate the word “elastic” with yoga pants and rubber bands. But it also means “resilient”—the ability to withstand pressure. Elastic materials are far more durable than rigid and brittle ones, which will shatter under the slightest pressure. The same is true for habits.

A traditional habit is unchanging: the same behavior is done at the same time to the same level every day. It works well … until the pressures of modern life break its rigid and brittle shell. Elastic habits are fluid: they can change their form and intensity to suit each unique day. They survive busy, tired, bad days. They thrive in better days. 

Adapt Your Habits to Survive Threats

Nature shows us that biological and behavioral adaptation to one’s environment is the key to survival for all living things:

• The most resilient bacteria mutate to survive the threat of antibiotics (to our dismay).
• Chameleons, octopi, and cuttlefish actively change their color to avoid predators and capture prey.
• Birds migrate, while bears, bats, and chipmunks hibernate to survive winter. 
• Camels use fat stored in their humps for hydration and energy when food and water are scarce in harsh, arid lands.

Living things adapt in many more ways to survive threats of disease, violence, and natural disasters. Good habits, too, need to survive the turbulence of life so that they can benefit us for years, not mere days or weeks.

Elastic habits are the adaptation masters of the habit kingdom. They transform to fit your life every day. As a result, they always find a way to survive; they are virtually unbreakable. But that’s not all they can do.

Adapt Your Habits and Thrive 

Elastic habits can expand, adding significant upward potential to your life; on any day, you can increase your daily goal for a greater challenge and a bigger reward. Upward flexibility maximizes our potential and keeps us excited about our progress.

Elastic habits give you an answer for every situation. If traditional habits are a hammer, elastic habits are your grandfather’s garage, a magical place with a tool for every need.

In Elastic Habits, You’ll Learn How to:

• Strengthen existing or new habits by making them elastic
• Easily overcome resistance at any time (and never have a “zero day” again)
• Use vertical and lateral flexibility to create nine win conditions for each habit
• Triple your motivation by using all three of its “sweet spots” (standard habits use only one)
• Create a custom and flexible habit plan that fits your life

Read Elastic Habits now, and you’ll soon discover the life-changing difference of smarter habits that adapt to your day.