But it doesn’t matter what we think a person (or ourselves) should be able to do—what matters is only what works for each individual. To help people change their habits or behavior, we should help get...
Associate with people who are likely to improve you. —SENECA, Letters from a Stoic
Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person’s daily happiness than getting a $ 60,000 raise.
Almost always, if I make a commitment, I can stick to it, even without outside help.
Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.
Getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person’s daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
Else. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.
Discouraging as he’d been, hadn’t actually hit on my real worry about my project: Was it supremely self-centered to spend so much effort on my own happiness?
Begin by tackling the habits that help us to: 1. sleep 2. move 3. eat and drink right 4. unclutter Foundation
William Butler Yeats. Happiness, wrote Yeats, is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
When we distract ourselves, we purposefully redirect our thoughts, and by doing so, we change our experience. Distraction can help us resist temptation, minimize stress, feel refreshed, and tolerate p...
When the Schiphol Airport put the image of a housefly above the drains of urinals, men began to aim at it—a change that reduced spillage rates by 80 percent. Gamification is used in the design of devi...
When scheduling a new habit, it helps to tie it to an existing habit, such as after breakfast, or to an external cue, such as when my alarm rings, because without such a trigger, it’s easy to forget t...
When scheduling a new habit, it helps to tie it to an existing habit, such as after breakfast, or to an external cue, such as when my alarm rings,
When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
We all know the secret of dieting - eat better, eat less, exercise more - it's the application that's challenging.
Walking had an added benefit: it helped me to think. Nietzsche wrote, All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking, and his observation is backed up by science; exercise-induced brain chemical...