Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits. If you’re proud of the scarves you knit, you’ll be more likely to spend hours knitting each week. If you’re proud of the size of your biceps, you’ll make sure you never skip an upper-body workout. If you’re proud of how your hair looks, you’ll develop all sorts of habits to care for and maintain it. The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
10īe the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it. 9Įvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. 7Īll big things come from small beginnings. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it-but all that had gone before.
JAMES CLEAR HABITS QUOTES CRACK
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running 4 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. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. You do not rise to the level of your goals. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. Mine are 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 20, 23, 27, 28, 30…Įvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
Let’s reflect on the wisdom of these quotes today.ĭo let me know your favorites down below. It requires setting big goals but, more importantly, creating systems and environments that bring us closer to achieving them. The pursuit of sexual and moral integrity is about becoming a particular kind of person. Instead of adding the quotes one by one, I figured it would be easier to dedicate an entire post to the theme.
It is rare to see a lifetime of wisdom distilled on a single page. I checked out the book’s Goodreads page (Atomic Habits) and was astounded by the sheer volume of dynamic quotes. He said he uses it as a curriculum for the teams he manages at his job, and now I can see why. My brother recently recommended I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. “A lifetime of wisdom distilled on a single page.” (Photo: James Clear)
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