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...
Tomorrow Loophole: As part of my investigation of First Steps, I’d identified tomorrow logic. Now doesn’t matter, because we’re going to follow good habits tomorrow.
Recently I’d been intrigued to read about a self-publishing site, Lulu.com. According to the Web site, I could print a proper hardback book, complete with dust jacket, for less than thirty dollars.
Same person, same activity, different habit.
Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into work. Parents, for example, are warned not to reward children for reading—they’...
Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
Arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate.p 84
A regular work schedule can help procrastinators because progress and engagement relieve their anxiety.
Although many people believe that habits form in twenty-one days, when researchers at University College London examined how long people took to adopt a daily habit, such as drinking water or doing si...
Although people often assume that cravings intensify over time, research shows that with active distraction, urges—even strong urges—usually subside within about fifteen minutes.Drawing on intrinsic m...
Although people often assume that cravings intensify over time, research shows that with active distraction, urges—even strong urges—usually subside within about fifteen minutes.
Apply the one minute rule. Don't postpone anything that could be done in less than a minute
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...
As Samuel Johnson said, To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
At certain points in our lives, it may not be possible to be happy, but it is possible to try to be happier—as happy as we can be, under the circumstances—and by doing so, fortify ourselves against ad...
Besides clarity of values, another kind of clarity supports habit formation: clarity of action. The more specific I am about what action to take, the more likely I am to form a habit. A habit to be mo...
Besides clarity of values, another kind of clarity supports habit formation: clarity of action.
Unlike a reward, which must be earned or justified, a treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it.
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