What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
The most effective form of motivation is progress.
The difference (in successful people) is that they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of bordeom.
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reas...
Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit.
Decide on the future you want to experience, then find out the habits that will produce it and practice them daily.
Improvements is not just about learning habits, it’s about fine-tuning them.
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them.
The central idea is to create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
Life is a series of seasons, and what works in one season may not work in the next. What season are you in right now? What habits does that season require?
The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.
At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over.
The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
I can guarantee that if you manage to start a habit. there will be days when you feel like quitting.
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