The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
You have to standardize before you can optimize. You can’t improve a habit that doesn’t exist.
Distraction is a good thing because you need distractions to practice meditation.
The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual.
I find that I often imitate the behavior of those around me without realizing it.
If you work in a job where everyone wears expensive suits, then you’ll be inclined to splurge on one as well.
We need to make our habits attractive because it is the expectation of a rewarding experience that motivates to act in the first place.
All habits serve you in some way – even the bad ones – which is why you repeat them.
Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits. It’s a two-way street.
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.
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.
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 are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
I had never considered myself a mastery of a topic, but rather someone who was experimenting alongside my readers.
With the same habits, you’ll end with up with the same results. But with better habits, anything is possible.
To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.