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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.

Charles Duhigg

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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
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
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
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
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
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
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Commitment Competition Heel Investment Research
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
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
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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 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
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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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