Quotes About Routine

doce horas en la cama, cuatro en el tocador, cinco en visitas y tres de paseo, o en el teatro.

Con tanta normalidad, quiero decir. Siempre pensé que iba acompañado de pasiones o arrebatos. Lo de antes fue un acto casi burocrático.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Time passes, and we "measure out our lives in coffee spoons.

No wonder she dated Asher. They probably did weirdly specific things together at weirdly specific times. Coffee at exactly 7:03 a.m. Double-toasted cinnamon raisin bagels with extra cream cheese at 8:26 a.m. Hot yoga at 10:17 a.m. Avocado toast and aragula salad at 1:34 p.m. Dinner at that vegan place down the street at 7:35 p.m. Sex at 9:48 p.m. Everyone loves a well-planned kink, right? ''I'm scheduling you at eleven o'clock, baby. You know what happens if you're late''.

Custom is second nature.

Todos deberíamos, en algún momento de la existencia, cuestionar nuestra propia vida. Quien no lo hace será esclavo de su rutina, será controlado por ella y nunca verá nada más allá del velo del sistema. Vivirá para trabajar, cumplir obligaciones profesionales, tener un papel social pero terminará sucumbiendo en el vacío. Vivirá para sobrevivir hasta la llegada de la muerte.

Cuando el río es lento y se cuenta con una buena bicicleta o caballo sí es posible bañarse dos (y hasta tres, de acuerdo con las necesidades higiénicas de cada quién) veces en el mismo río.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Power can be invisible, it can be fantastic, it can be dull and routine. It can be obvious, it can reach you by the baton of the police, it can speak the language of your thoughts and desires. It can feel like remote control, it can exhilarate like liberation, it can travel through time, and it can drown you in the present.

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

People get sick, take vacations, and have emergencies. We're not aiming for perfection here, only consistency. Keeping the habit alive means keeping it rooted in your routine no matter how tiny it is.

When talking about Tiny Habits, I use the term Anchor to describe something in your life that is already stable and solid. The concept is pretty simple. If there is a habit you want, find the right Anchor within your current routine to serve as your prompt, your reminder. I selected the term "anchor" because you are attaching your new habit to something solid and reliable.

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.

Question tradition. Who says you have to keep your vitamins in the kitchen or floss in the bathroom? Maybe your vitamins need to be next to your computer. Or maybe flossing works best when you keep floss next to your TV remote

The essence of Tiny Habits is this: Take a behavior you want, make it tiny, find where it fits naturally in your life, and nurture its growth.

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

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.

In Behavior Design we match ourselves with new habits we can do even when we are at our most hurried, unmotivated, and beautifully imperfect. If you can imagine yourself doing the behavior on your hardest day of the week, it's probably a good match. It's probably a Golden Behavior.

Do you have enough time to do the behavior? Do you have enough money to do the behavior? Are you physically capable of doing the behavior? Does the behavior require a lot of creative or mental energy? Does the behavior fit into your current routine or does it require you to make adjustments? Your Ability Chain is only as strong as its weakest Ability Factor link.

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

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