"Atomic Habits" and What To Take Into 2025

James Clear's "Atomic Habits" is a life changing book about how many small habits can lead to huge changes in your life and wellbeing. Many people can take the lessons of this book and use it to create achievable goals for the New Year.
Clear creates four laws to form and maintain habits and they are to make it obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. It is hard to start a new habit if it seems impossible and these four laws make it alluring to start and stick to your goals. I will tell you how you can use his four laws to create objectives in 2025 that will be attainable and desirable.
So, if your goal for the New Year is to get in shape you need to first "make it obvious " for example, before you go to work set out your gym clothes so that when you come home after work you will see them and it will be harder to avoid working out. The more obvious you make your goals the harder it will be to dodge them.
Next is "make it attractive" meaning the more enticing a habit looks then the more likely it is that you'll want to do it. Let's take the example of eating healthier, which is a common goal for many people. You can pair the idea of eating healthy (a habit that you need) with spending time on social media (a reward that you want). A way to do this is telling yourself that if you eat one healthy meal then you will give yourself a prize of scrolling on social media for fifteen minutes. The reason that this is so effective is you put two things that you want to do together which makes it so captivating and alluring, making it even harder not to do it.
Additionally, Clear's law over "make it easy" talks about how the simpler you make a habit the easier it will be to progress with it. For example if you want to start learning a new language it is easier to tell yourself to study for ten minutes which may not seem like a long time but once you start the activity there's a chance that you will do it for a longer amount of time. There is also the idea that you might get burnt out by trying to read for an hour each day which means it will be more sustainable for you to read for ten minutes each day. This further supports the belief that consistency over intensity is more important to keep your goals in the long term.
The last law is "make it satisfying" which is the principle that if you receive immediate pleasure from your habit you will be more likely to repeat it. Another common resolution is to start writing a book. To implement this law whenever you write a chapter of your book you put five dollars in a jar to save up for a new item that you want. So, making your habits satisfying continues to enforce good feelings related to your habits which only makes you consistent with them in the long run.
Lastly, I think another law that I believe is critical when starting and keeping your New Year's resolutions is to make it fun which means to create an interesting or aesthetic space to complete your habits. This can be wearing cute workout clothes before you go to the gym or if you like to use an engaging app to learn a language then do it because if your mind believes it's unique and enjoyable then you will maintain the habit into the future.
In total, using Clear's ideas from his book “Atomic Habits” can help you create reasonable and achievable resolutions. I would recommend reading the full book to completely understand his ideas and thought process behind creating the laws for success. So when setting your goals for 2025 keep in mind his four laws make it obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. In addition to my own law of making it fun.