These are my favorite lines from the self-development books that I have read. These are my highlights – the lines I will live by. I may no longer find the time to read the books again but I will definitely reread these highlighted lines to guide me. Click here to get a copy of the book.
73 Best Lines & Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
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- Success is a product of daily habits – not once in a lifetime transformations.
- You get what you repeat.
- Good habits make time your ally.
- A number of problems arise if you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your system.
- It is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
- If you continue to priorities comfort over accomplishment, you’ll be drawn to relaxing rather than training.
- You have a new goal and a new plan but you haven’t changed who you are.
- The focus should always be on becoming that type of person, not getting a particular outcome.
- I will [behavior] at [time] in [location]
- When I buy a new item, I will give something away (minimalism)
- Your habits change depending on the room you are in and the cues in front of you.
- Her couch is the place where she reads for an hour each night.
- Go to a new place – a corner of your room you seldom use and create a new routine there.
- One space, one use.
- If you can’t seem to have any work done, leaver your phone in another room for a few hours.
- Make the cues of your good habit obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
- Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.
- We imitate people we envy.
- Your habits are modern day solutions to ancient desires.
- Habits you perform are really an attempt to address your fundamental underlying motives.
- That’s the biggest reason why you slip into motion rather than taking action: you want to delay failure.
- You don’t want to be merely planning – you want to be practicing.
- Habits form based on frequency, not time.
- Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life.
- We can remove the points of friction that holds us back.
- When you start a new habit, it should take less than 2 minutes to do (cues)
- It’s better to do less than you hope for that do nothing at all.
- When you automate as much of your life as possible, you can spend your effort on tasks machines cannot do yet.
- Social Media – I didn’t need to check it as often as I had been, and I certainly didn’t need it each day.
- Ignore an immediate reward in favor of a delayed reward.
- Immediate rewards are essential. They keep you excited while the delated rewards accumulate in the background.
- A habit needs to be enjoyable for it to last.
- Visual measures – like moving paper clip provide clear evidence of your progress.
- He is simply focused on showing up and adding to his streak.
- Don’t break the chain is a powerful mantra.
- Manual tracking should be limited to your most important habits.
- Never miss twice.
- The problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all.
- It’s crucial to show up even if you don’t like it, even if you do less than you hope.
- (Don’t) focus on working long hours instead of getting meaningful work done.
- Choose a habit that best suits you, the one that is most popular.
- The more you master a specific skill, the harder is becomes to compete with you.
- You can often win by being the best in a very narrow category.
- Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain their success as luck.
- Humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities.
- The optimal level of arousal as the midpoint between boredom and anxiety.
- Really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. The difference is that they still find a way to show up despite the feeling of boredom.
- The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.
- You have to fall in love with boredom.
- If you only do the work when it’s convenient or exciting, then you’ll never be consistent enough to achieve remarkable results.
- Stepping up when it’s annoying or painful or draining to do so, that’s what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur.
- Professionals stick to the schedule, amateurs let life get in the way.
- When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood.
- The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over.
- The less energy you spend on trivial choices, the more you can spend it on what really matters.
- Establish a system for reflection and review.
- It makes you aware of your mistakes and helps you consider possible paths for improvement.
- Decision journal – record major decision each week.
- Improvement is not just about learning habits, it’s also about fine tuning them.
- You don’t want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
- The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
- The effect one small action can have when repeated enough time,
- You will have to admit that your life was transformed by one small change.
- The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1% improvement, but thousands of them.
- As you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life starts to move.
- Commitment to tiny, sustainable, unrelenting improvements
- Always looking for the next way to get 1% better
- It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop
- He who has a why to live for can beat almost any how
- If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it
- Reward is on another side of sacrifice
- Desire initiates, pleasure sustains
- Feeling motivated gets you to act, feeling successful gets you to repeat
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What’s your favorite line so far?
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