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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Charles Duhigg

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
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
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Plant Power Relative Waste
There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
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
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
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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Flexible Kind Marketing Moments Window 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
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
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
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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
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
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity

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