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.
We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.
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.
A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination.
Success is the product of daily habits – not once in a lifetime transformation.
What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it.
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
Habits are a double-edged sword. Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up.
Learning one new idea won’t make you a genius, but a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative.
Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.
In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is often a Valley of Disappointment.
It’s a hallmark of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed.
All big things come from small beginnings.
The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.
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.
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
Behind every system of actions are a system of belief.
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