At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGGMaking your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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