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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.

Charles Duhigg

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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
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 problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward Yourself
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay

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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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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