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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.

Charles Duhigg

I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
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
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
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
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
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
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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 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
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
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
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
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

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