Quotes About Habit

many cases, you'll find your lack of doing a behavior is not a motivation issue at all. You can solve for the behavior by finding a good prompt or by making the behavior easier to do.

Don't pressure yourself to do more than the tiniest version of your habit. If you're sick, tired, or just not in the mood, scale back to tiny.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

If she wants to start a new habit, she gets excited and curious instead of overwhelmed.

Make the behavior so tiny that you don't need much motivation.

When you are designing a new habit, you are really designing for consistency. And for that result, you'll find that simplicity is the key. Or as I like to teach my students: Simplicity changes behavior.

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

When you celebrate effectively, you tap into the reward circuitry of your brain. By feeling good at the right moment, you cause your brain to recognize and encode the sequence of behaviors you just performed.

By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive.

After I (ANCHOR), I will (NEW HABIT).

Simplicity changes behavior.

If you do the Maui Habit and feel that it won't be a great day, I advise you to still say this phrase. I say it even on mornings when I feel exhausted or overwhelmed or anxious about the day ahead. In that moment, sitting on the edge of my bed, I try to feel optimistic. But if this feels phony, then I adjust the phrase and my intonation as I say, "It's going to be a great day—somehow.

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

What is the tiniest habit I could create that would have the most meaning? Write down a few answers even if you don't intend to create any of those habits right now. The more answers you come up with, the more you are practicing this skill.

Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.

Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs.

We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.

In ancient customary societies the influence of manner, which is a primary influence, has been settled into rules, so that it may aid established usages and not thwart them—that it may, above all, augment the HABIT of going by custom, and not break and weaken it. Every aid, as we have seen, was wanted to impose the yoke of custom upon such societies; and impressing the power of manner to serve them was one of the greatest aids.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.