You might start a habit because of motivation, but the only reason you’ll stick with one is that it becomes part of your identity. The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader. The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner. The goal is not to learn an instrument, the goal is to become a musician. -Atomic Habits, p.34 Continue reading True behavior change is identity change
Ex: If you’re proud of how your hair looks, you’ll develop all sorts of habits to care for and maintain it. If you’re proud of the size of your biceps, you’ll make sure you never skip an upper-body workout. -Atomic Habits, p.33 Continue reading The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
In the words of three-time Super Bowl winner Bill Wash, “The score takes care of itself”. On a day-to-day basis, stop monitoring the score constantly (sales, followers, etc.)… Focus on building a better system and the score will follow. A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems. Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. Problem #2: Achieving a goal is only a momentary change. Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement. We think we need … Continue reading Forget about setting goals, focus on your systems instead
Here’s what progress is really like: 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. -Atomic Habits, p.21 Continue reading Feeling discourage by a lack of progress?
Roadmap to Billions 