Quotes from Gretchen Rubin

argue, you're better off pursuing a profession that comes easily and that you love, because that's where you'll be more eager to practice and thereby earn a competitive advantage. I love writing

Maintaining a healthy weight requires us not to follow a temporary diet, but to change our eating habits forever.

gave up Nutella in December 2011. A few years later I thought I would be able to handle the Nutella once more so I bought two jars on sale. I ate 4,000 calories of Nutella over 36 hours.

In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, "I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.

We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.

It was interesting to have a better sense of my daily habits

By finding my reward within the habit itself, with a reward that takes me deeper into the habit. If I look outside a habit for a reward, I undermine the habit. If I look within the habit for the reward, I strengthen the habit.

habits eliminate the need for self-control.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while

I choose to be happy, in spite of whatever drama that is going on in my life.

Research suggests that when we have conflicting goals, we don't manage ourselves well. We become anxious and paralyzed, and we often end up doing nothing.

Obligers, however, often dislike their Tendency. They're vexed by the fact that they can meet others' expectations, but not their expectations for themselves.

Happy people make people happy, but I can't make someone be happy, and No one else can make me happy.

By giving something up, I gain.

Apply the one minute rule. Don't postpone anything that could be done in less than a minute

The reward for a good habit is the habit itself.

In other words, even though one coin certainly isn't sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.

The most important piece of writing advice: Have something to say. Whenever I have trouble writing, it's because I'm trying to write about something I don't care about. Once I know what I'm trying to say, writing is a joy. Other advice: read, read, read. GRETCHEN RUBIN

By helping us to feel energetic and happy, healthy treats can play a key role in fostering good habits, but we must guard against the temptations of unhealthy treats. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, regret, loss of control, and other negative consequences kick in.

Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself—not what other people value, or expect from me—the more likely I am to stick to my habits.

one Secret of Adulthood is "Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense'"? "And

Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, or OCEAN)

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Clarity is one reason that the Strategy of Scheduling is so helpful. It's important to have time to write; to have time with my family; to read. Instead of spending my day in a chaos of warring priorities, and feeling as though whatever I do I'm leaving important things undone, I can use the clarity of Scheduling to guarantee that I have time and energy to devote to each activity that matters.