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.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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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.
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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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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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