Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.
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It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
If history serve as a guide, the opportunities of the future will be more attractive than those of today.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
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.
Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator.
To be productive, the cost of procrastination must be greater than the cost of action.
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.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
Your habits change depending on the room you are in and the cues in front of you.