Your goal might be to run a marathon, but your gateway habit is to put on your running shoes.
The first step to changing bad habits is to be on the lookout for them.
If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.
We need to make our habits attractive because it is the expectation of a rewarding experience that motivates to act in the first place.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
Most things are not as difficult as they seem—if you focus each day. However, giving one topic your full attention for an extended period of time is even harder than it seems. Over a long timeline, th...
Success unlocks both opportunities and distractions.
It is hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.
Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to g...
No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
Small changes in context can lead to large changes in behavior over time.
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
In the long run, we become a product of the environment we live in.
If you work in a job where everyone wears expensive suits, then you’ll be inclined to splurge on one as well.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
Peer pressure is bad only if you’re surrounded by bad influences.
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
If you'd like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day. There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there...
Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
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