Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination.
In the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
These improvements were minor, but they gave me a sense of control over my life.
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long term goals.
When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
By the time we become adults, we rarely notice the habits that are running our lives.
It’s a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment.
Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.
If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
This is one of the most surprising insights about our habits: you don’t need to be aware of the cue for a habit to begin.
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.
The only way I made progress – the only choice I had – was to start small.
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.