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.
The process of behavior change always start with awareness. You need to be aware of your habits before you can change them.
Building habits in the present allows you to do more of what you want in the future.
Fundamentally, habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.
The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you’ll be to maintain the habits associated with it.
I began to realize that my results had very little to do with the goals I set and nearly everything to do with the systems I followed.
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
Success is the product of daily habits – not once in a lifetime transformation.
We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent.
Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.