When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
If you can’t learn the basic skill of showing up, then you have little hope of mastering the finer details.
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Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.
Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
Using technology to automate your habits is the most reliable and effective way to guarantee the right behavior.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long term goals.
A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Change is easy when it is enjoyable.
Each small win feeds your desire.
Focus on the process rather than the results.
No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point.
Missing one workout happens, but I’m not going to miss two in a row.
I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all.
Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
Simply doing something – ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really – is huge.
It’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about being the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts.
It’s easy to train when you feel good, but it’s crucial to show up when you don’t feel like it – even if you do less than you hope.
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