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 CLEARUntil you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
More James Clear Quotes
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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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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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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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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.
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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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You get what you repeat.
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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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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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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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.
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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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