I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: reptition is a form of change.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
We’ll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain.
Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it.
If history serve as a guide, the opportunities of the future will be more attractive than those of today.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take.
Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
To be productive, the cost of procrastination must be greater than the cost of action.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
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