Many of our daily habits are imitations of people we admire.
Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: reptition is a form of change.
The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.
When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
We repeat bad habits because they serve us in some way, and that makes them hard to abandon.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
You don’t have to build the habits that everyone tells you to build.
In theory, you can enjoy almost anything. In practice, you are more likely to enjoy the things that come easily to you.
When a habit is easy, you are more likely to be successful. When you are successful, you are more likely to feel satisfied.
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey to self-improvement: You have to fall in love with boredom.
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
It’s a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
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