Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results!

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@James Clear

If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero. What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.

1% BETTER EVERY DAY

1% worse every day for one year. 0.99365 = 00.03
1% better every day for one year. 1.01365 = 37.78

@James Clear

It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.

@James Clear

Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

@James Clear

Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.

@James Clear

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

@James Clear

The most powerful outcomes are delayed.

@James Clear

The outside world only sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it.

@James Clear

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.

@James Clear

All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.

@James Clear

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

@James Clear

The goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers. […] Winners and losers have the same goals. […] But it’s the implementation of a system of continuous habits that maks each one achieve a different outcome.

@James Clear

Achieving a goal is only a momentary change. If you maintain the same bad habits that led to the bad consequences in the first place, soon you’ll be looking at a new pile of clutter and hoping for another burst of motivation. You’re left chasing the same outcome because you never changed the system behind it. You treated a symptom without addressing the cause.

@James Clear

Goals restrict your happiness. A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.

@James Clear

It is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.

@James Clear

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

@James Clear

An atomic habit refers to a tiny change, a marginal gain, a 1 percent improvement. But atomic habits are not just any old habits, however small. They are little habits that are part of a larger system. Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results!