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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Charles Duhigg

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
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
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
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Bad Change Gold Habit Yourself
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
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
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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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand

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