Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
Studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn’t enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One
To achieve greater clarity in my actions, I often invoke a bright-line rule, a useful concept from law. A bright-line rule is a clearly defined rule or standard that eliminates any need for interpreta...
Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong.
My ambition, however, was also a factor in leaving the law. I'd become convinced that passion was a critical factor in professional success... I could see that in my co-clerks at the Supreme Court: th...
Novelist Jean Rhys observed, One is born either to go with or to go against.
Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.
Once I’ve cleared away the things I don’t need, use, or love, my surroundings reveal to me, and to others, the things that matter most to me. Careful curation means that my space and my possessions re...
One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past. —Elias Canetti, The Human Province
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed eve...
The fact is, while some habits are almost unbreakable, some habits remain fragile, even after years. We must guard against anything that might weaken a valuable habit. Every added link in the chain st...
One study estimated that for every hour of interrupted sleep during the previous night, people wasted 8.4 minutes in online puttering
Our habits are our destiny.
Overbuyers, by contrast, find excuses to buy. They accumulate large quantities of office supplies or kitchen gadgets or travel paraphernalia with the thought This will probably come in handy someday....
People take less food when using tongs, instead of spoons, to serve themselves.
People who feel less guilt and who show compassion toward themselves in the face of failure are better able to regain self-control, while people who feel deeply guilty and full of self-blame struggle...
Perhaps—like writing, leadership, and a sense of humor—good habits are something that must be learned, but can’t be taught.
Physical activity is the magical elixir of practically everything.
Plainness was not necessarily simplicity, Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what...
Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself—not what other people value, or expect...
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