I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.
I should monitor whatever is essential to me. In that way, I ensure that my life reflects my values.
I should tailor my habits to the fundamental aspects of my nature that aren’t going to change. It was no use saying I’ll write more every day if I team up with another writer, and we race to see who c...
I started to apply the one-minute rule; I didn’t postpone any task that could be done in less than one minute.
I was reminded of Lord Kelvin’s observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.
In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.
In a nutshell, Rebels respond best to a sequence of information, consequences, and choice. We must give Rebels the information they need to make an informed decision; alert them to the consequences of...
In one study, when subjects made a shopping list for what they’d eat in a week, more chose a healthy snack instead of an unhealthy snack; when asked what they’d choose now, more people chose the unhea...
It struck me as poignant that my long relationship with my beloved grandparents could be embodied in a few small objects. But the power of objects doesn't depend on their volume; in fact, my memories...
It struck me, in fact, that all of my work on habits and happiness was meant to help us construct, as much as possible, just that: everyday life in Utopia. Everyday life with deep, loving relationship...
It was interesting to have a better sense of my daily habits
It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is m...
Keep a sense of humor. Over and over, I see that levity helps diffuse practically any difficult situation—which
Of course it's not enough to sit around wanting to be happy; you must make the effort to take steps toward happiness by acting with more love, finding work you enjoy, and all the rest. But for me, ask...
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.
Else. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
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...
They’re perceived to be more friendly, warmer, and even more physically attractive. A study showed that students who were happy as college freshmen were earning more money in their midthirties—without...
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...
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