Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Bad habits are autocatalytic: the process feeds itself. They foster the feelings they try to numb.

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

Our behavior is not defined by the objects in the environment but by our relationship to them.

When your dreams are vague, it’s easy to rationalize little exceptions all day long and never get around to the specific things you need to do to succeed.

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

What you crave is not the habit itself but the change in state it delivers.

The real reason habits matter is not because they can get you better results (although they can do that), but because they can change your beliefs about yourself.

of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins.

In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.