🗒️ Explore my blog

When you regulate your daily actions, you deactivate your “fight or flight” instincts because you’re no longer confronting the unknown.This is why people have such a difficult time with change, and why people who are constant in their habits experience so much joy: simply, their fear instincts are turned off long enough for them to actually enjoy something.

Status: #idea Tags: habit, routine References 101 essays that will change the way you think

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.

Status: #idea Tags: habit References Atomic Habits by James Clear > Introduction

All big things come from small beginnings.

Status: #idea Tags: The Aggregation of Marginal Gains, small beginnings References Atomic Habits by James Clear > Chapter 1

The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger.

Status: #idea Tags: change, habit, tiny decisions References Atomic Habits by James Clear > Chapter 1

Every Olympian wants to win a gold medal. Every candidate wants to get the job. And if successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.

Status: #idea Tags: habit, goals References Atomic Habits by James Clear > Chapter 1

A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems

Status: #idea Tags: goals, systems References Atomic Habits by James Clear > Chapter 1