Elastic Habits Quotes

“ever miss. It means to make your minimum requirement “showing up” instead of “showing off.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“One could look at my slump and say, “Look at what the freedom to indulge did to you!” But that wasn’t freedom, it was slavery to indulgent living, since I forbade most of my good habits. It was the same kind of arbitrary restriction or requirement that goal-setters place upon themselves.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Daily small commitments are considered by many to be the most effective habit formation strategy, and that’s why they’ve become the standard.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“sometimes it’s the lack of hope, belief, and self-trust that saps our energy and convinces us we can’t do”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Once your spirit breaks, it’s shocking how easy it is to decline.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“You’re giving yourself abundant, empowering freedom, which makes challenges exciting.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“You’re only doing it for the result. You’re not playing on your own team.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“You aren’t giving yourself enough freedom.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Motivation has been falling out of favor in habit circles, but that’s because rigid goals offer only one form of it. Now that we have three distinct motivators—attainability, respectability, and value—we can find motivation in almost any situation.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Motivation has been falling out of favor in habit circles, but that’s because rigid goals offer only one form of it. Now that we have three distinct motivators”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Your small accomplishments might not look good on paper, but they can change the brain when linked, generate momentum, and are 100% attainable.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Perfectionists are often depressed because their reality never meets its full potential. It never will.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Motivated thought: “I can definitely do that.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Motivational Sweet Spots Maximum Attainability (Small Wins): It’s desirable to succeed in your pursuits, whatever they are.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Motivation drives us to take action. When pursuing a goal or trying to develop good habits, you ideally want to create situations in which your motivation to make progress”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“To prioritize consistency means to set your marks low enough that you won’t”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Elasticity is not only about increasing flexibility; it’s about increasing resilience to pressure.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Those who trade their freedom for temporary results will inevitably trade it back later because freedom matters most to us.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“If changing your behavior has always felt like a struggle and a burden, ask yourself why. What’s more satisfying than living how you want to live?”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“can only come from a place of personal freedom and empowerment. We need to do the opposite of what we typically do.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“People model their change attempts after the external discipline they receive as children. They try to improve their lives by enslaving themselves to rigid and arbitrary goals, an outside-in approach. But for real change to occur, we need self-discipline, which”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“People model their change attempts after the external discipline they receive as children. They try to improve their lives by enslaving themselves to rigid and arbitrary goals, an outside-in approach. But for”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“People model their change attempts after the external discipline they receive as children. They”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Discipline is what others do to us to keep our behavior in check. Self-discipline is how we form ourselves into the people we want to be.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Self-discipline is a skill, but it’s only possible to sustain it through freedom of choice.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Essentially, [self-discipline] must be encouraged, rather than enforced.” ~ SiXiong Lester Walters”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Discipline is what authority figures do to us to keep us in check. Self-discipline is what we do for ourselves to gain control of our lives and become the people we desire to be.6”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Discipline is driven by external punishment and reward. Self-discipline, however, is driven by freedom and practice.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“Goldilocks spot for our habits and goals, the one spot that isn’t too easy or too hard, and just rewarding enough. But that spot moves every day.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day

“The main danger comes when you insist on overcoming the rip current by swimming directly into it and exhausting yourself.”
― Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits: Good Habits That Adapt to Your Day