Novelty. I’m definitely in the familiarity camp. I love to reread my favorite books and to watch movies over and over. I eat the same foods, more or less, every day. I like returning to places I’ve vi...
Nothing was insurmountable if I did what I knew ought to be done, little by little. My
Note: people weigh their highest on Sunday;14 their lowest, on Friday morning.)
Many people decide to improve their habits, they don’t begin by looking where their keys are; they begin by looking in an easy spot.
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.
Is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be never fed.
From Lewis’s brilliant essay On Three Ways of Writing for Children: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read th...
Begin by tackling the habits that help us to: 1. sleep 2. move 3. eat and drink right 4. unclutter Foundation
As always, Upholders must make sure to articulate their inner expectations.
And the
A Secret of Adulthood: things often get harder before they get easier—but
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
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.
While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they don't offer nearly the same happiness as more challenging activities.
While physical activity is a key aspect of the Foundation and has many emotional and physical benefits, people often assume that its most important benefit is something that, ironically, it doesn’t pr...
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 you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
When Obligers have the external accountability they need to meet their inner expectations, they don’t experience any sense of limitation or self-frustration—and of course many environments, such as th...
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while. That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.