Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
JAMES CLEARYou should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
More James Clear Quotes
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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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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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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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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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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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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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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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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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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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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