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.
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...
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.
What I Value What’s most satisfying to me: saving time, or money, or effort? Does it bother me to act differently from other people, or do I get a charge out of it? Do I spend a lot of time on somethi...
We should make sure the things we do to feel better don’t make us feel worse.
We all know the secret of dieting...it's the application that's challenging. p 7
Upholders-tipped-to-Obligers have a commitment to both inner and outer expectations, for them, the pull of outer expectations is very hard to ignore; UPHOLDER/Obligers must be sure to articulate inner...
Underreact to a problem
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...
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.
To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.
To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. I