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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 Duhigg

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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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Champion Fast Follow Habit Learning Ordinary Reaction Thinking
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
I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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Change Habit Old Reward Routine
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
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit 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
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
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
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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 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

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