Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes V

 -The secret is to always stay below the point where it feels like work. 

-The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. 

-When the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. 

-Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit. 

-Show up and add to the streak.

-The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. 

-This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast. 

-You don't realize how valuable it is to just show up on your bad days. Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.

-Never interrupt it unnecessarily. 

-Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. Simply doing something, ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really, is huge. Don't put up a zero. Don't let losses eat into your compounding. 

-It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it. Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but reaffirms your identity. 

-When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes IV

 -It is the anticipation of the reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action. 

-Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.

-Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together. 

-Humans everywhere pursue power, prestige and status. 

-Saving money is often associated with sacrifice. However, you can associate it with freedom rather than limitation if you realize one simple truth: living below your current means increases your future means. The money you save this month increases your purchasing power next month. 

-You can reframe 'I am nervous' to 'I am excited and I am getting an adrenaline rush to help me concentrate'. 

-If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.

-Habits form with frequency, not time.

-Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life. 

-Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible. 

-The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.

-The greater the friction, the lest likely the habit. 

-The point is to master the habit of showing up. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes III

 -Try, fail, learn, try differently. 

-We can't always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way. 

-You are much more than your conscious self. 

-We must begin the process of behavior change with awareness. 

-Many of our failures in performance are largely attributively to a lack of self-awareness. 

-Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be? 

-Hearing your bad habits spoken aloud makes the consequences seem more real. 

-A fresh start feels motivating. 

-No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior. 

-Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior. 

-Making a better decision is easy and natural when the cues for good habits are right in front of you. 

-Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world, and not merely the consumer of it. 

-Habits can be easier to change in a different environment. 

-Make the cues of your good habits obvious, and the cues of your bad habits invisible. 

Atomic habits my James Clear. Quotes II

 -Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results. 

-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. 

-True behavior change is identity change. 

-Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. 

-What is the type of person that could get the outcome I want? 

-The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. 

-You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. 

-Habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. 

Atomic habits by James Clear. Quotes.

 -I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen. 

-Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you are willing to stick with them for years. 

-Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish assume it is my error. 

-If you broke down anything you know about riding a bicycle, and then improve it by 1 per cent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together. 

-If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty seven times better by the time you're done. 

-Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. 

-You get what you repeat. 

-Understanding the details is crucial. 

-The score takes care of itself. 

Calendar Book #5: May. Atomic habits by James Clear