Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGGBetween calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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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.
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Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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