Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.
I began to realize that my results had very little to do with the goals I set and nearly everything to do with the systems I followed.
The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.
Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it.
Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
Even if you’re not the most naturally gifted, you can often win by being the best in a very narrow category.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
Distraction is a good thing because you need distractions to practice meditation.
The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual.
All habits serve you in some way – even the bad ones – which is why you repeat them.
Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits. It’s a two-way street.
If you keep casting the same votes you’ve always cast, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always had.
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you’ll be to maintain the habits associated with it.
Success is the product of daily habits – not once in a lifetime transformation.
We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
I had never considered myself a mastery of a topic, but rather someone who was experimenting alongside my readers.