Atomic Habits Best Quotes

Atomic Habits is one of the best motivational books that keep you awe stuck with the series of incidence that writer goes through to become best version of himself indeed by developing small, atomic habits. Lessen to psychologically develop resilience by taking baby steps to achieve big in life.

There is a saying which I find most appropriate to start this journey of building good habits.

People do not decide their future ,they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.

F.M.Alexander

How to build better habits in 4 simple steps: Insight from the Book Atomic Habits

This book Atomic Habits presents the actionable strategies and it places them within a framework called the Four Laws of Behavioral Change.

This book emphasize on creating small but good habits that one can perform daily as Bruce Lee so memorably one said

“Don’t worry about a guy who has practiced thousand kicks, worry about a guy who had practiced one kick thousand times.”

BRUCE LEE

This is because of the compounding effect. Once you have developed a habit and you start practicing it daily it become your second nature. It becomes effortless for you.

Habit building basically consists of four easy steps:

Cue, Craving, Response, and Reward.

It is through the breaking down of this habit into basic parts that there begins a clear concept of itself, how it works, and how it can be improved.

The cue triggers a craving, which motivates a response, which provides a reward, which satisfies the craving and, ultimately, becomes associated with the cue. Together, these four steps form a neurological feedback loop—cue, craving, response, reward; cue, craving, response, reward—that ultimately allows you to create automatic habits. This cycle is known as the habit loop.

These four steps can be transformed into a very workable framework that will help us in designing good habits and killing bad ones. This framework is called the Four Laws of Behavior Change, which is a simple set of rules for creating good habits, breaking bad ones.

How to build a good habit:

The 1st law (Cue): Make it obvious.

The 2nd law (Craving): Make it attractive.

The 3rd law (Response): Make it easy.

The 4th law (Reward): Make it satisfying.

How to break a bad habit:

Inversion of the 1st law (Cue): Make it invisible.

Inversion of the 2nd law (Craving): Make it unattractive.

Inversion of the 3rd law (Response): Make it difficult.

Inversion of the 4th law (Reward): Make it unsatisfying.

Best Quotes from the Book Atomic Habits

“People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.”

– James Clear
 
OCTOBER 16, 2018
ATOMIC HABITS

“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.”

“Conventional wisdom holds that motivation is the key to habit change. Maybe if you really wanted it, you’d actually do it. But the truth is, our real motivation is to be lazy and to do what is convenient. And despite what the latest productivity best seller will tell you, this is a smart strategy, not a dumb one.”

“It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action. As Voltaire once wrote, ‘The best is the enemy of the good.'”

“When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren’t all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, ‘disciplined’ people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control.”

This is because of the fact that goals an momentary. Both loser and winner have same goals. But make a difference that winner develop a system for winning. Goals are not for ever but SYSTEMS are Developed forever.

Lets say you have to clean your house. Its your goal for a moment. You have cleaned it .Bravo……Good job done. But if you have made a habit of cleaning your home ,it become your second nature. Now without putting extensive effort you become habitual of cleaning. Now cleaning is no hassle for you.

“Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.”

“Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yourself: How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?”

“Over the long run, however, the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-image gets in the way. This is why you can’t get too attached to one version of your identity. Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.”

“It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.”

“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.”

“The implicit assumption behind any goal is this: “Once I reach my goal, then I’ll be happy.” The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.”

Focus who you want to be rather then what you want to achieve just like affirmations. You have to focus who you want to be, rather then small goals. Success will naturally come to you if you know what you want to be instead what you want to achieve. If you want to be fit in life you have to say “I eat healthy food because I am a healthy person”. Or “I do work hard because I am a hard worker.”

As changes become easy to implement when they comes from one’s inner self…

“In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.”

“Complaining about not achieving success despite working hard is like complaining about an ice cube not melting when you heated it from twenty-five to thirty-one degrees. Your work was not wasted; it is just being stored. All the action happens at thirty-two degrees.”

“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.”

“Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”

Again it is because of the compounding effect. If you focus on getting only 1% better ,according to the book by the end of the year you will become 37 times better version of yourself.

“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty.”

“The ultimate form of intrinsic motivation is when a habit becomes part of your identity. It’s one thing to say I’m the type of person who wants this. It’s something very different to say I’m the type of person who is this.”

“Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it. It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Your actions reveal your true motivations.”

“The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it. If you’re proud of how your hair looks, you’ll develop all sorts of habits to care for and maintain it. If you’re proud of the size of your biceps, you’ll make sure you never skip an upper-body workout. If you’re proud of the scarves you knit, you’ll be more likely to spend hours knitting each week. Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.”

“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.”

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”

“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is big. That’s the paradox of making small improvements.”

James Clear
OCTOBER 16, 2018
ATOMIC HABITS

Important Lessons from the Book Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits offers a very clear, scientific way to build good habits and break the bad ones.

Lesson No.1: from book Atomic Habits

 Lesson 1: Small habits make a big difference .If we want to see great impact in our lives we should not be waiting for a big sudden change ,caused due to a drastic moment in our life. What will bring real difference in our life is making small improvements each day. All those baby steps towards your goals are most important than any thing in life if you want to achieve something in your life.

Meanwhile, improving by 1 percent isn’t particularly noteworthy—sometimes it isn’t even noticeable—but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. It’s remarkable what these small steps will can make over time. Here’s how in the language of math if is defined….

This phenomenon is called the Compounding Effect. If you focus on Being Disciplined rather than Being Motivated to pursue a habit daily, you will be more successful in adapting better habits.

” If you get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.”

“If you get 1 percent worse every day for one year, you’ll decline nearly to zero. What seems like a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.

Focus on getting 1 percent better every day.

It does not matter how successful or unsuccessful you are at this moment. What matters is whether those habits are putting you on the path toward success.

Lesson No. 2: from book Atomic Habits

Goals are about the outcome you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Meant focus on developing a system rather then running after goals.

If you’re having problems changing your habits, the issue isn’t you. The issue is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change … but because you have the wrong system for change.

Lesson No. 3: Build Identity-Based Habits

The reason why you should begin building lasting habits is that it starts with identity change first. The things you do now are simply a reflection of your present identity. The way you act today is just an outcome of the person you perceive yourself to be, either consciously or subconsciously.

 For lasting change to take effect in your behavior, you will have to begin believing new things about yourself. You got to build identity-based habits.

Changing your identity is much easier than you might probably believe. There are two steps only.

*Decide the type of person you want to be.

*Prove it to yourself with small wins.

Your identity will come out from your habits. You get one vote for every action you take. The type of person you wish to become is determined by every action taken.

I am sure that by mere reading and implementing only this book one can change any bad habit and adopt any good habit of the world.

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