The Easier Way: Why We Struggle to Stick to Healthy Choices—and How to Make Them Automatic

Why is it so difficult to stop making choices that work against your health and happiness—even though you know better?

You already know the healthy choices you want to make. Now discover the easier way to keep making them.

The junk food gets eaten. The exercise gets skipped. One glass of wine becomes two. You stay up too late. Another hour is lost to your phone or TV screen. You know choices like these add up, draining your energy, focus, and productivity while increasing your risk of brain decline, heart disease, and other serious diseases.

The Easier Way offers the science-backed solution that curbs impulsive choices—and the forces behind them—and makes the smartest choices your new default. And it starts with a liberating truth: You are not weak. You are surrounded. Everywhere you turn today, powerful forces are engineered to capture your attention and push you toward “want-it-right-now” choices.

But what if you could turn the tables? What if your healthiest choices became the easiest ones?

In The Easier Way, longevity and behavior change expert Brian Vaszily reveals:

• Why most unhealthy choices are already being set in motion before you even feel like you're making a choice
• Why “trying harder” fails (and what to do instead)
• Why common approaches to changing unhealthy behavior often backfire
• How to spark the “upward spiral,” where a single healthy choice makes the next one easier
• Fast and powerful “emergency resets” to use when stress or temptation threatens to overpower your best intentions
• Exactly what to change in the rooms where you spend most of your time in order to set yourself up for success

What’s more, he shares simple, science-based strategies to make your healthiest choices far easier and more automatic. Many take only minutes and are enjoyable. Nothing will make a greater impact on how long—and how well—you live than the choices you make from this point forward. If you’re tired of knowing better but not doing better, welcome to The Easier Way.