Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
JAMES CLEARWe imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
More James Clear Quotes
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You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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