With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
People who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom.
Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.
Habits are a double-edged sword. Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up.
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.
In the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started.
These improvements were minor, but they gave me a sense of control over my life.
You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.
When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.
You don’t want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey to self-improvement: You have to fall in love with boredom.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
Your habits are modern-day solutions to ancient desires. New versions of old vices.
We’re so used to doing what we’ve always done that we don’t stop to question whether it’s the right thing to do at all.
By the time we become adults, we rarely notice the habits that are running our lives.
It’s a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment.
If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
The only way I made progress – the only choice I had – was to start small.