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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.

Charles Duhigg

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
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
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
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
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
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Anand Thakur
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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
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
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
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

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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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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