changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years. (Location 150)
four-step model of habits—cue, craving, response, and reward (Location 190)
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. (Location 259)
Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. (Location 278)
it doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. (Location 279)
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. (Location 280)
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. (Location 284)
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. (Location 289)
Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. (Location 320)
the most powerful outcomes are delayed. (Location 326)
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. (Location 355)
Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results. (Location 366)
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead. (Location 379)
We think we need to change our results, but the results are not the problem. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results. (Location 396)
Furthermore, goals create an “either-or” conflict: either you achieve your goal and are successful or you fail and you are a disappointment. You mentally box yourself into a narrow version of happiness. This is misguided. It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there are many paths to success. (Location 403)
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. (Location 419)
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits. (Location 501)
True behavior change is identity change. (Location 502)
We do not change by snapping our fingers and deciding to be someone entirely new. We change bit by bit, day by day, habit by habit.6 We are continually undergoing microevolutions of the self. (Location 561)
