8 keys to build and stack habits for your children, so they’ll become an expert in any field they choose

Rubén García Pérez
2 min readMar 5, 2024
Photo by Jessica Lewis 🦋 thepaintedsquare on Unsplash

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily.

It would look John C. Maxwell knew our grandparents, who used to tell us that we should work a little bit every day. At least, if we wanted good grades at school. The temptation to leave homework to the last minute, or even the last night, was so great….

But as Maxwell also pointed out, The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

8 keys to build and stack habits

These are the main takeaways you can learn reading James Clear’s Atomic Habits.

1️⃣ Tiny changes: Seek to grow 1% per day in what you focus on, and you’ll grow 37x in a year. Track what you are doing.

2️⃣ Goals vs. systems: Instead of focusing on achieving a certain result, focus on creating systems/processes for ongoing improvement; ultimately, this is what will lead you to achieve goals. Think of goals as the North Star, while the system is everyting else: the vessel, the sails, the wind….

3️⃣ Change your identity: Out of the 3 layers in human behavior (identity, process and results), the most effective way to change habits is not to redefine your…

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Rubén García Pérez

Son-Husband-Father & Pediatrician👨🏼‍⚕️: Writing ⚛ Essays at #ship30for30 🚢 about Self-Improvement, Productivity and Parenting | Ongoing learner #GTD #BASB 🚀