What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
The opposite of happiness is unhappiness, not depression.
The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.
The reward for a good habit is the habit itself.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers
The second reason rewards pose a danger for habits is that they require a decision. A habit, by my definition, is something we do without decision making.
The single most important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice
The very words we choose to characterize our habits can make them seem more or less appealing. Engagement time sounds more interesting than than email time; playing the piano sounds more fun than prac...
The words of the writer Colette had haunted me for years: What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Then I wonder if some people need a coach more than a therapist, I said, thinking of Obligers.
When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.
There are times in the lives of most of us, observed William Edward Hartpole Lecky, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unap...
Think about appearances. I wanted my apartment to be less cluttered, and also to look less cluttered.
There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my actions.
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...
There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.
There’s no evidence for the belief that letting off steam is healthy or constructive. In fact, studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn’t relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand...
There’s no magic formula—not for ourselves, and not for the people around us. We won’t make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people’s habits, even the habits of geniuses; we mus...
There is no Future-Gretchen, only Now-Gretchen.
And the
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