Quotes About Consistency

I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.

The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.

However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our lives.

The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.

With habits, we don't make decisions, we don't use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do—or that we don't want to do.

What I do most days matters more than what I do once in a while." That kind of self-encouragement is a greater safeguard than self-blame.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld advised aspiring comedian Brad Isaac that, because daily writing was the key to writing better jokes, Isaac should buy a calendar with a box for every day of the year, and every day, after writing, cross off the day with a big red X. "After a few days you'll have a chain," Seinfeld explained. "You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.

once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.

the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making

By doing a little bit each day, you can get a lot accomplished. We tend to overestimate how much we can accomplish in an hour or a week and underestimate how much we can accomplish in a month or a year, by doing just a little bit each day.

It's easier to keep up than to catch up...

The Strategy of Scheduling, of setting a specific, regular time for an activity to recur, is one of the most familiar and powerful strategies of habit formation

Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.

70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day.

Although many people believe that habits form in twenty-one days, when researchers at University College London examined how long people took to adopt a daily habit, such as drinking water or doing sit-ups, they found that, on average, a habit took sixty-six days to form.

day three days a week for six weeks

For most of us, the real aim isn't to enjoy a few pleasures right now, but to build habits that will make us happy over the long term. Sometimes, that means giving up something in the present, or demanding more from ourselves.

If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

Many assume that offering a reward will help people to jump-start a healthy habit, which will then persist after the reward fades away. Not so. Often, as soon as the reward stops (and sometimes before it stops), the behavior stops.

By doing a little bit each day you can get a lot accomplished

One of my most helpful Secrets of Adulthood is "What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.

For most people, whenever possible, important habits should be scheduled for the morning. Mornings tend to unfold in a predictable way, and as the day goes on, more complications arise—