AtomicHabits

“Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be “finished.”

Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle... See more

“Success is often found by practicing the fundamentals everyone knows they should be doing, but find too boring or basic to practice routinely.”

“To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance.

To simplify after you understand the details is genius.”

Writer G. K. Chesterton reminds us to not be carried along by life, but to live with energy, will, and conviction:

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

Source: The Everlasting Man ​ ​ ​

“The more you create, the more powerful you become.

The more you consume, the more powerful others become.”

“Compete externally and you compare.

Compete internally and you improve.”

Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.

Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.

“New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.”