Atomic Habits

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

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

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

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

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.

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

When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.

Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yourself: How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

You get what you repeat.

A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.

Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.