“Success is a product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.
Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits.
Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits.
And so on.
Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.
Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits.
Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits.
And so on.
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
QUESTION: If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed?
QUESTION: If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed?
Here is a good way to answer that question:
If you were a basketball coach and you ignored your goal to win a championship and focused only on what your team does at practice each day, would you still get results?
I think you would.
If you were a basketball coach and you ignored your goal to win a championship and focused only on what your team does at practice each day, would you still get results?
I think you would.
“Progress requires unlearning.”
Identity emerges out of habits. You were not born with preset beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
Identity emerges out of habits. You were not born with preset beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
"We are continually undergoing microevolutions of the self”
This is a gradual evolution. We do not change by snapping our fingers and deciding to be someone entirely new. We change bit by bit, day by day, habit by habit.
This is a gradual evolution. We do not change by snapping our fingers and deciding to be someone entirely new. We change bit by bit, day by day, habit by habit.
“Goals are about results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results."
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your systems instead.
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your systems instead.
“The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future."
Every habit produces multiple outcomes across time. With bad habits, the immediate outcome feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
Every habit produces multiple outcomes across time. With bad habits, the immediate outcome feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
“Don’t break the chain' is a powerful mantra.”
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
Missing once is an accident.
Missing twice is the start of a new habit.
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
Missing once is an accident.
Missing twice is the start of a new habit.