When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.
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.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
There have been a lot of sets that I haven’t felt like finishing, but I’ve never regretted doing the workout.
We often dismiss small changes because they don’t seem to matter very much in the moment.
Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
Habits create the foundation for mastery.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
The downside of habits is that you get used to doing things a certain way and stop paying attention to little errors.
The less energy you spend on trivial choices, the more you can spend it on what really matters.
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
You have to standardize before you can optimize. You can’t improve a habit that doesn’t exist.
Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis.
It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
Success is not a goal to reach or a final line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up.
You don’t want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
Improvements is not just about learning habits, it’s about fine-tuning them.
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