Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.
The Hawthorne effect, in which people being studied improve their performance, simply because of the extra attention they’re getting. In
The marriage expert John Gottman calls the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for their destructive role in relationships: stonewalling, defensiveness, criticism, and contempt. Well,
The habit of bed making is correlated with a sense of greater well-being and higher productivity. Other common broken windows include having a messy car; accumulating piles of laundry or trash; not be...
Six obvious ways to make an activity less convenient: • Increase the amount of physical or mental energy required (leave the cell phone in another room, ban smoking inside or near a building). • Hid...
One Secret of Adulthood is Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense’? And
Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.
Leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it’s not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do.
Leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it’s not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do. Having
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.
With habits, we don’t make decisions, we don’t use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do—or that we don’t want to do.
Whenever I start a new book, I think, This is the most interesting subject of all time. It’s sad, I’ll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one. Every time, I’m convinced. And then...
When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can’t indulge...
When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.
When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, Vote for you?...
Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. And whatever liberates our spirit while giving us mastery over ourselves is constructive.
We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people,
We manage what we monitor.
Use counters for activities, not for storage.