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Very often, doing the right thing means doing the hard thing.
If you’re not doing what you should be, then anything else out of your mouth is an excuse, plain and simple.
So ask yourself, what am I really doing all of this for?
Am I being self-aware?
endowed progress effect, which states that you should think in terms of what you already have.
if you provide some sort of artificial progress toward a goal, that would then increase the probability of a person putting in the rest of the work to complete the goal.
exerted more effort the closer they were
As long as you focus on outcomes and attach self-worth to them, you’ll be closed off to new experiences and taking risks.
if you are worried about failing, you might even try less in the first place so that you don’t have to face the prospect of giving it your all and it not being enough.
when you only attach your sense of worth to the effort you’re putting forth, you start to enjoy the proc...
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In reality, creating and developing good habits of self-discipline is exponentially more important than motivation in terms of reaching goals and getting what you want.
motivation is a temporary state of mind, while habits become ingrained behaviors.
it took 66 days for a daily action to become automatic.
Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit,
When you try to break a bad habit or form a positive one, you’re naturally going to feel awkward or uncomfortable at first because you have to actively make decisions about your behavior. Your brain has already been programmed to function in a certain way, so it will resist the change and, as a result, make the new behavior feel wrong and even frightening.
The best thing to do in order to successfully reprogram your behavior is to embrace the wrong.
Ultimately, habit formation and self-discipline come down to small actions persisting over 66 days that you must power through without regard to your emotional state.
the Six Sources of Influence Model. The model explains all of the factors that influence us whenever we try to alter our behavior or increase our discipline.
You need to accept that sometimes discipline is going to be difficult and it might feel extremely wrong, but that’s temporary. If you push through the pain and discomfort that you’ll inevitably face when you try to change your behavior, you can break bad habits and build better ones in their place.
