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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.

Charles Duhigg

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
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
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
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
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
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
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
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
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 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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay

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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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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