The problem isn’t knowledge. The problem was consistency.
The idea is to make it as easy as possible in the moment to do things that payoff in the long run.
You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without.
Genes can’t make you successful if you’re not doing the work.
Your thoughts create your reality and you can chose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day by guarding your mind and only allowing the right input.
The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.
Focus is where you fail or succeed.
Dopamine released not only when you experience pleasure, but also when you anticipate it.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them...
Many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity.
Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...
One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it.
Your culture sets your expectation for what is ‘normal.’
It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.
While it is not possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can make any habit more enticing.
The more energy required, the less likely it is to occur.
Missing one workout happens, but I’m not going to miss two in a row.
I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse.
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