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Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

Charles Duhigg

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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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Flexible Kind Marketing Moments Window 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
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
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
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
Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
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
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
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
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
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

Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

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