black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

James Clear

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
JAMES CLEAR

Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEAR

Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
JAMES CLEAR

Aware Cure Poison Reflection
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
JAMES CLEAR

Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEAR

Choice Early Habit Imitation
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
JAMES CLEAR

Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
JAMES CLEAR

Born Education Genius Training
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
JAMES CLEAR

Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Person Type Vote Yourself
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Lose Winner
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
JAMES CLEAR

Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes