"Stress compounds...negative thoughts compound. The more you think of yourself as worthless or stupid or ugly, the more you condition yourself to interpret life that way." --James Clear, Atomic Habits
"Making a choice that is 1% better or 1% worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime, these choices determine the difference between who you are who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. That said, it doesn't matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." --James Clear, Atomic Habits
Mic drop here, pretty much. I mean wow and yasssss and praise hands.
But I will add my thoughts...Thanks to @tshoxenreider and @thelazygenius and whoever else recommended this book. It met me in my time of need, (which apparently has been all my life because I never learned to develop habits.) I read and loved Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit and loved it, but just as he claimed, Mr. Clear brilliantly took things to the next level of understanding and application. What I loved most: the foundation he laid for the importance of habits (in a sense, who you are is comprised of the things you regularly do, and the things you regularly do make you who you are); the insight that lack of autonomy diminishes willpower (so you can stay motivated by giving yourself choices, even small ones); and the practical advice for how to build habits--slowly and with such small steps that it's actually easy (I mean, that just might work!)
Will return to this one again and again. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫—I really, really liked it
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