Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.
CHARLES DUHIGGIt 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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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