Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
Life feels reactive, but it is actually predictive.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
Living below your current means increases your future means.
It’s easy to be in motion and convince yourself that you’re making progress.
You don’t need to map out every feature of a new habit. You just need to practice it.
When deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.
Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose.
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
Even when you know you should start small, it’s easy to start too big.
Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
Focus on the process rather than the results.
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.
Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but it reaffirms your identity.
To be productive, the cost of procrastination must be greater than the cost of action.
Behavior only shifts if the punishment is painful enough and reliably enforced.
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
The human brain loves a challenge, but only if it is within an optimal zone of difficulty.
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