black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

James Clear

The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
JAMES CLEAR

Game Goal Play Purpose Win
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
JAMES CLEAR

Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
JAMES CLEAR

Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Improvement Interest
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
JAMES CLEAR

Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
JAMES CLEAR

Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
JAMES CLEAR

Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
JAMES CLEAR

Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
JAMES CLEAR

Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
JAMES CLEAR

Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
JAMES CLEAR

Motion Object Start Stay Time
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
JAMES CLEAR

Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes