Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through.
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
It is hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.
Small habits don’t add up. They compound. That’s the power of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
We repeat bad habits because they serve us in some way, and that makes them hard to abandon.
Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but it reaffirms your identity.
Simply doing something – ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really – is huge.
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis.
Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose.
When deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.
If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.