At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over.
To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.
The only way I made progress – the only choice I had – was to start small.
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination.
In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment.
Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.
By the time we become adults, we rarely notice the habits that are running our lives.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predicts certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it.
This is one of the most surprising insights about our habits: you don’t need to be aware of the cue for a habit to begin.
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
When you dream about making change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
If you can’t learn the basic skill of showing up, then you have little hope of mastering the finer details.
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long term goals.
Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
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