black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?

James Clear

The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
JAMES CLEAR

Hurt Work Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
JAMES CLEAR

Identity Reflection Yourself
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
JAMES CLEAR

Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
JAMES CLEAR

Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
JAMES CLEAR

Principle Stand Value Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
JAMES CLEAR

Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong Yourself
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
JAMES CLEAR

Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
JAMES CLEAR

Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
JAMES CLEAR

Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
JAMES CLEAR

Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
JAMES CLEAR

Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Design Easy Life Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Lose Winner
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
JAMES CLEAR

Environment Motivational Place

WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes