Are you tired of making the same pledges and setting the same goals year after year, only to fall back into old routines? Do you find yourself blaming lack of willpower or motivation when efforts to change behavior fail? You're not alone. Popular media understanding of habits is often decades behind the science.

Unlock the secret to lasting change with 'Wendy Wood on Good Habits, Bad Habits,' a comprehensive 12-lesson, 25-page course with graded assessments from Personal Development ProSkills.training. Created by Wendy Wood, the leading scientist on the nature of habit, this course provides the first scientifically grounded analysis of habit formation. For over 30 years, Wood's research has revealed surprising insights into what habits are, how to form them, and why they're so difficult to change.

This essential course debunks the common myth that willpower alone drives success. Instead, you'll discover that super-achievers automate their actions and form habits to effortlessly achieve their goals, saving money, exercising, or getting more sleep without conscious determination. You'll gain a powerful toolkit to break unwanted habits and create new, desired ones that work with you, not against you.

Dive deep into the three fundamental bases for habit formation:

• Context Is King: Learn how your surroundings, not just internal motivation, powerfully drive or restrain behavior. Discover how to remove friction and establish the right driving forces by manipulating your environment, making good habits roll into your life. This includes techniques like "mise en place" – putting everything in its proper place with upfront conscious effort so your habitual self can take over.
• The Truth About Repetition: Uncover the real science behind how many times an action needs to be repeated until it feels automatic (on average, 65 days for simple behaviors, up to 91 for complex ones). Crucially, you'll learn that missing a day or two won't derail your progress. Maintain consistency and harness the power of time cues to reinforce your routines.
• How Rewards Work: Understand the critical role of immediate, unexpected, intrinsic, and "better than usual" rewards in habit learning. These rewards spur the release of dopamine, the "feel-good chemical," promoting habit associations in memory. You'll also learn that once habits are formed, they operate on autopilot, persisting even when the initial reward is no longer consciously valued.

Beyond these core principles, you will learn practical strategies like:

• Habit Stacking: Tying a new behavior to existing cues from an established behavior, streamlining the habit-forming process.
• Situational Control: Proactively modifying your surroundings to minimize temptations and distractions, which is more effective than relying on sheer willpower.

This course reveals that self-control isn't about superhuman resistance, but about wisely putting yourself into contexts with the right forces and automating your behavior. You'll also gain insight into how people around you can be powerful influences on your desired habits.

Ultimately, embracing habits leads to more than just achieving goals; it fosters a benignly thoughtless mind, reducing uncertainty and internal chatter. You'll experience increased feelings of coherence, comprehension, inner calm, and meaning in life. The best part? Your habits will support you through life's challenges, remaining steadfast even when you're stressed, tired, or overwhelmed.

Stop fighting yourself and start automating your success. Enrol in 'Wendy Wood on Good Habits, Bad Habits' today and transform your life with the science of lasting positive change!