If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.
Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
Customers will occasionally buy products not because they want them but because of how they are presented to them.
Your habits change depending on the room you are in and the cues in front of you.
Habits are about associations. These associations determine whether we predict a habit to be worth repeating or not.
Life feels reactive, but it is actually predictive.
Living below your current means increases your future means.
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something.
If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
One of our greatest challenges in changing habits is maintaining awareness of what we are actually doing.
The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.
It’s easier to practice self-restraint when you don’t have to use it very often.
Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.
Your culture sets your expectation for what is ‘normal.’
One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.
Behaviors are attractive when they help us fit in.
Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
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