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

by James Clear

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.

changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.

major publications like Time, Entrepreneur, and Forbes. Incredibly,

Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.

If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems.

When you solve problems at the results level, you only solve them temporarily. In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.

Your bad habits are what lead to the negative outcome, you can't treat the symptom you have to treat the cause