When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.
We all know the secret of dieting - eat better, eat less, exercise more - it's the application that's challenging.
Waldenlust. This longing takes several forms: fantasies of the freedom that dispossession would bring; nostalgia for earlier, supposedly simpler times; and reverence for the primitive, which is assume...
Waiting fifteen minutes proved effective against my growing checking habit.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
Things often get harder before they get easier.
There’s no evidence for the belief that letting off steam is healthy or constructive. In fact, studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn’t relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand...
There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my actions.
The very words we choose to characterize our habits can make them seem more or less appealing. Engagement time sounds more interesting than than email time; playing the piano sounds more fun than prac...
The happiest, healthiest, most productive people aren’t those from a particular Tendency, but rather they’re the people who have figured out how to harness the strengths of their Tendency, counteract...
The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Some people love finishing, and some people love opening—both literally and figuratively. Finishers love the feeling of bringing a project to completion, and they’re determined to use the last drop in...
Some habits become completely automatic; others require some effort, always. What matters is to be moving in the right direction. There’s a great satisfaction in knowing that we’ve made good use of ou...
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Autobiography
Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.
Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is when any one element is threatened.
Remember, the reason to clear clutter is because, somehow, that clutter is diminishing your happiness. If you don’t care, don’t bother.