The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you’ll be to maintain the habits associated with it.
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.
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People who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking.
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.
Distraction is a good thing because you need distractions to practice meditation.
If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
You don’t actually want the habit itself. What you really want is the outcome the habits delivers.
Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
The more immediate and more costly a mistake is, the faster you will learn from it.
The people at the top of any competitive field are not only well trained, they are also well suited to the task.
Professionals take action even when the mood isn’t right. They might not enjoy it, but they find a way to put the reps in.
I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started.
The only way I made progress – the only choice I had – was to start small.
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.
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.
Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
I began to realize that my results had very little to do with the goals I set and nearly everything to do with the systems I followed.
You are much more than your conscious self.
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