A Shared identity is your identity, and your tribe can work together to build good habits.
Atomic Habits Lesson 9 – Find Your Tribe
“You are the average of the 5 people you associate with most.” Quote via Tim Ferriss.
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Atomic Habits Lesson 8 – Habit Tracking
After a story that compares gamblers to calendars, the question is posed: “How will you track the progress of your habits?”
Atomic Habits Lesson 8 – Habit Tracking
And remember, the calendar doesn’t lie.
Atomic Habits Lesson 7 – Rewards and Mistakes
Lesson 7, ‘Rewards and Mistakes’, examines two ideas. First, what are positive versus negative rewards? And then, what do you do when you make a mistake?
Atomic Habits Lesson 7 – Rewards and Mistakes
Most people fall out of good habits after a mistake because they don’t have a plan…
If ‘oops’, then what?
Atomic Habits Lesson 6 – Make it Rewarding
We are about to pass the half-way point of these 10 lessons. I hope that you are finding them useful.
Lesson 6 examines how identity habits are much easier than motivation. If I believe that I am someone who regularly or always does something, that’s a lot easier than motivating myself, and trying to convince myself, that I should do that same thing.
Atomic Habits Lesson 6 – Make it Rewarding
Atomic Habits Lesson 5 – Make Habits Automatic
Lesson 5 is about reducing friction and habit stacking. How do you decrease or eliminate things that make your habits hard to get started, and how do you stack your habits so that they become an automatic process once you get started?
Atomic Habits Lesson 5 – Make Habits Automatic
This is the first ‘Storytime’ in the series, where I share a personal story. I share my fitness routine to exemplify how I use this lesson to my full advantage. My morning routine is automatic, and so I only have to initiate one habit and then the entire habit stack just gets done.
Atomic Habits Lesson 4 – Place Based Routines
Lesson 4 looks at designing and priming the location where you do your habits, so that the environment works for you.
Atomic Habits Lesson 4 – Place Based Routines
Reduce friction and distractions, do your 2 minute planning, and then get to it!
Atomic Habits Lesson 3 – Make It Obvious
Lesson 3 asks three questions:
- What you will do?
- When? And,
- Where?
Developing good habits starts with obvious intentions. This works well as part of the 2 Minute Planning suggested in Lesson 2.
Atomic Habits Lesson 3 – Make It Obvious
Lesson 4 will be shared on Monday, I’ll be taking the weekends off from these 10 lessons because they are being introduced to Inquiry Hub students on 10 consecutive school days.
Atomic Habits Lesson 2 – Two Minute Planning
Creating Lesson 1 was a comedy of errors.
Version 1: I have Descript which adds captions, but I didn’t use it for my upload, despite knowing that I have a hearing impaired student at my school. That wouldn’t do.
Version 2: I added the captions, re-uploaded to YouTube, and only then noticed that the captions spelled James Clear’s last name as Clare. That wouldn’t do.
Version 3: I uploaded the 3rd version and noticed my cover title said ‘Identity based Goals’. The whole video is about Habits, not Goals. That wouldn’t do.
Version 4: Is live and good enough!
I’m going to focus more on just getting these done now, rather than changing minor imperfections. That said, I’m open to feedback.
Atomic Habits Lesson 2 – The Two Minute Rule.
This goes more specifically into Two Minute Planning. I’m not sure if this follows the true intention of James Clear’s two minute rule, but I think it works well for students to ritualize a good habit.
Atomic Habits Lesson 1 of 10
I’ve had this ‘in the works‘ for a very long time. Here is lesson one of ten:
Lesson 1, ‘Identity Based Habits‘, is the first of 10 Lessons based on James Clear’s book ‘Atomic Habits’. It was created by Principal David Truss for Inquiry Hub Secondary Students.
I will share all 10 lessons here over the coming weeks. Atomic Habits is one of the best books I’ve ever read, and I wanted to share what I’ve learned with students at our school. These students get a lot more unstructured time than most high school students, and developing good habits about using that time well is something that can drastically improve a student’s effectiveness and output.
I hope to help guide our students to better productivity.
Positively Subversive Leadership
A colleague in my district was recently complaining that when she went to her staff to see what their needs were, they said they needed new desks. These are an equipment update that:
- Will require a fair percentage of the school’s expendable budget.
- Won’t help the school progress or move forward with their practice.
As such, my colleague was disappointed that this is what she’d be spending so much of her budget on.
I suggested that she only purchase tables for two students and not individual desks. This meets the need of replacing old desks but invites, if not almost forces, a different way of running a classroom. Students must be in pairs or fours, the tables fold to get out of the way, and they are usually on wheels which invites them being moved regularly.
Instead of randomly replacing desks in different classrooms, she could put all the new desks in one classroom, and distribute the still good desks in that room to where they are needed. Who gets the new double desks? The teacher that wants to have them. If there is more than one, she can have discussions about how the teachers will use them to help her decide.
Transitioning to 2-student tables provides so many opportunities for collaboration, and a teacher excited about using them will change their practice even if they already grouped students together often. This takes a school need and turns it into an opportunity. If someone else is asking for those same tables and the budget isn’t there for them, that invites a conversation about how single desks can be used together to achieve the same goals.
It’s not fun having to use a lot of your budget to replace old items, but this can provide a chance to upgrade in a way that invites a different approach. This is a way to take an expense and turn it into an opportunity.
