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 DUHIGGIf you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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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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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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