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If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Charles Duhigg

At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.
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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
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
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
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Bad Change Gold Habit Yourself
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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