Consistency is better than perfection — Michael Hyatt — I wish I knew about this secret 2 years ago. Since I began writing on Medium, I have never been consistent. Thanks to Tim Dennings's advice I have been able to stick to my writing. and I plan to use it every day. Never miss twice Your habit could be to walk for…

The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future. — The year was 1972. 56 Pre-schoolers at Stanford University were recruited and placed in a room. Group one was shown two treats (a marshmallow and a pretzel) and asked to choose their favorite. They were allowed to alert for the experimenter to come back at any time, but were told…

The 2 minute rule says that when you begin a new habit, it should take you less than two minutes to do. — The 2 minute rule can change your life. It certainly changed mine. I discovered today, that I had been using the rule in my new writing habits. Previously, I had struggled to write 12 blog posts a month before I stopped entirely. Thanks to the 2 minute rule, I have…

The environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior — James Clear — In 1971, Robert Steele and Morgan Murphy made a discovery that stunned the Americans Public. Over 15% of US soldiers in Vietnam were heroin addicts. They discovered that 35% of the soldiers had experimented and started the habit while in Vietnam. A Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention under…

Tweaking the environment is about making the desirable habits a little bit easier and the undesirable habits a little bit harder. — We are frequently blind to the power of our environment. What we often think of as a personality issue is often an environmental problem. Stop blaming yourself for not sticking to your health goals and instead, check if there is something in your environment that’s making the junk eating habits…

Repetition is a form of change. — If there is one secret you need to master to build desirable habits, then it is repetition. Once you repeat your habits over a period of time, they become automatic. You do not have to master willpower. You do not have to remember. Research posits that there is a physical…

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — I am sad. Yesterday took away my dreams. Today and tomorrow will steal a slice of my dream. My habits have been eating away my life piece by piece. Now I have nothing to show for it. My habits have never changed, and so my life has remained largely the…

You cannot change what you are not aware of. — The year was 2009. A group of researchers funded by the National Institute of Health published surprising insights on weight loss. A group of 1600 obese study participants was told to record everything they ate for at least one week. The participants started noticing things they were not aware of: …

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement — C.S. Lewis — For most of us, failure means a cue to stop trying. The relationship we have with the cues and triggers in our lives pretty much dictates if we will continue with the action or stop. Micheal Jordan missed 9,000 shots in his career, he lost close to 300 games, and…