Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
All habits serve you in some way – even the bad ones – which is why you repeat them.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
If you keep casting the same votes you’ve always cast, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always had.
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity.
Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
When a habit is easy, you are more likely to be successful. When you are successful, you are more likely to feel satisfied.
You don’t have to build the habits that everyone tells you to build.
The more immediate and more costly a mistake is, the faster you will learn from it.
Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up.
If I outline twenty ideas for articles I want to write, that’s motion. If I actually sit down and write an article, that’s action.
I find that I often imitate the behavior of those around me without realizing it.
We often say yes to little requests because we are not clear enough about what we need to be doing instead.