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...
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.
No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
Small changes in context can lead to large changes in behavior over time.
This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
Using technology to automate your habits is the most reliable and effective way to guarantee the right behavior.
Prime your environment to make the next action easy.
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
Pleasure teaches your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.
Here’s the punchline: You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
Awareness is often enough to motivate change. Simply tracking your food intake will motivate you to alter it. Merely writing down your problems may spark ideas for possible solutions. The process star...
The closer we are to someone, the more likely we are to imitate some of their habits.
Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.
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