Quotes About Action

Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

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.

Boredom can be important. That's when you have to figure out what you want to do.

I started to apply the "one-minute rule"; I didn't postpone any task that could be done in less than one minute.

Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.

when encouraging Questioners to take action, it can be useful to remind them, Just try it. It's an experiment.

If I feel anxious about the fact that I haven't started, I become even more reluctant to start, which just makes me more anxious.

Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time. Do it now, or decide when you'll do it.

now is always the best time to begin.

Just taking one drifting step can you set you in a course that's very hard to stop.

intentions," also known as "action triggers" or "if-then" planning. "If ________ happens, then I will do _______." With "if-then" planning, we try to plan for every habit challenge that might arise, so we don't make decisions in the heat of the moment—we've already decided how to behave.

One thing that continually astonishes me is the degree to which we're influenced by sheer convenience. The amount of effort, time, or decision making required by an action has a huge influence on habit formation.

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Each day gave me a new opportunity to push the task off until tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'd feel like dealing with it. "Start now," I finally thought. "Just take the first step." I started with the smallest possible step

Tomorrow Loophole: As part of my investigation of First Steps, I'd identified "tomorrow logic." Now doesn't matter, because we're going to follow good habits tomorrow.

What am I waiting for?     What would I do if I weren't scared?     What steps would make things easier?     What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?     If I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I'd done?

all severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. An important reminder for Upholders

I remind myself, Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don't do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. The dinner party of take-out Chinese food is better than the elegant dinner that I never host.

course it's not enough to sit around wanting to be happy; you must make the effort to take steps toward happiness by acting with more love, finding work you enjoy

All I did was read a book, and that action unleashed an enormous force: the Strategy of the Lightning Bolt.

Besides clarity of values, another kind of clarity supports habit formation: clarity of action.

by acting with more love, finding work you