Your habits are the silent architects of your life.
Habits
The architecture of daily life and the compound interest of behavior
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.
Habits are systems. We are essentially our habits. Habits are like compound interest in real life.
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.
Stop a bad behaviour by filling the space with a better one. Replacement is better than abstinence.
The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
People don't decide their future, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
We tend to abandon the good system we'll follow in search of the perfect system that we will quit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The quality of your life depends on the quality of your habits. With the same habits, you'll end up with the same results.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them.
The ultimate form of intrinsic motivation is when a habit becomes part of your identity.
You don't have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
Success is the product of daily habits - not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.