Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
If you keep casting the same votes you’ve always cast, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always had.
The focus should always be on becoming that type of person, not getting a particular outcome.
Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.
The purpose of every habit is to solve the problems you face with as little energy and effort as possible.
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through.
Without dopamine, desire died. And without desire, action stopped.
When dopamine rises, so does your motivation to act.
I find that I often imitate the behavior of those around me without realizing it.
Habits are about associations. These associations determine whether we predict a habit to be worth repeating or not.
The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something.
Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take.
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.
But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
The most effective form of motivation is progress.
No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point.
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