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The truth is, a habit must be established before it can be improved.
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The idea is to make your habits as easy as possible to start… this is a powerful strategy because once you’ve started doing the right thing, it is much easier to continue doing it.
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Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.
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The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things.
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You may not be able to automate the whole process, but you can make the first action mindless.
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It’s better do to less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
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Nearly any larger life goal can be transformed into a two-minute behavior.
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Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.
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A commitment device is a choice you make in the present that controls your actions in the future. It is a way to lock in future behavior, bind you to good habits, and restrict you from bad ones.
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Commitment devices are useful because they enable you to take advantage of good intentions before you can fall victim to temptation.
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