Quotes About Habit

When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So

Build one habit at a time. Success is sequential, not simultaneous. No one actually has the discipline to acquire more than one powerful new habit at a time. Super-successful people aren't superhuman at all; they've just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.

The results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit. The full range was 18 to 254 days, but the 66 days represented a sweet spot—with easier behaviors taking fewer days on average and tough ones taking longer.

Dweck points out that mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit.

Put up with the discipline long enough to turn it into a habit, and the journey feels different.

it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.

Sustain the discipline long enough on one habit, and not only does it become easier, but so do other things as well.

established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one. If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life. You don't have to seek out success. Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.

Whether you seek answers big or small, asking the Focusing Question is the ultimate success habit for your life.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That

The Focusing Question helps you identify your ONE Thing in any situation. It will clarify what you want in the big areas of your life and then drill down to what you must do to get them. It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer. As simple as two steps, it's the ultimate Success Habit.

When you make asking the Focusing Question a habit, you fully engage its power to get the extraordinary results you want.

It's a difference maker. Research says this will take about 66 days. Whether it takes you a few weeks or a few months, stick with it until it becomes your routine. If you're not serious about learning the Success Habit, you're not serious about getting extraordinary results.

Starting a success support group with some of your work colleagues can help inspire all of you to practice the Success Habit every day. Get your family involved. Share your ONE Thing. Get them on board. Use the Focusing Question around them to show them how the Success Habit can make a difference in their school work, their personal achievements, or any other part of their lives.

mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine

The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results" or "The Success Habit Will Get Me to My Goal.

Starting a success support group with some of your work colleagues can help inspire all of you to practice the Success Habit every day. Get your family involved.

From age 14 through the Beijing Olympics, Phelps trained seven days a week, 365 days a year. He figured that by training on Sundays he got a 52-training-day advantage on the competition. He spent up to six hours in the water each day. "Channeling his energy is one of his great strengths," said Bowman. Not to oversimplify, but it's not a stretch to say that Phelps channeled all of his energy into one discipline that developed into one habit—swimming daily.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That's it. That