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Essential Habits — my new book

Wang Yip
4 min readMay 11, 2020

I’m typically not very good at promoting myself, but I thought I’d try to change that. I have been working for two years writing, researching and experimenting and that has culminated in my newest book called Essential Habits. The book is available on Amazon and I even have a promotional video that my friend Shawn Kanungo helped me to shoot, edit and distribute.

I wanted to touch a bit more on the background of the book, why I wrote it and most importantly, what I think you will get out of it.

What the book is about

Although the book is called ‘Essential Habits’, it is really a compilation of directives summarized from hundreds of non-fiction books, online courses, podcasts, audiobooks and personal experience. What’s a directive you ask? You can see what it is in the background for the book, but essentially, it’s a short statement that tells you what to do in a specific situation. In the book, I took inspiration from Benjamin Franklin’s quote “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” and have structured my book according to those three themes. There’s a section on being more healthy. A section on being more wealthy. And a section to help you become wiser.

For example, in the health section, there are chapters on how to eat healthy, how to exercise and get the maximum…

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Wang Yip
Wang Yip

Written by Wang Yip

Author of Essential Habits. I write about personal development, work and managing your career. Connect with me at www.wangyip.ca

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