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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

Charles Duhigg

The same process that makes AA so effective-the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe-happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power

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