Life changing quotes from Atomic Habits Book
20 Life-changing quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
- People make a few small changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop.
- If you find yourself struggling to build a good habit or break a bad one, it is not because you have lost your ability to improve.
- 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.
- Forget about goals, focus on systems instead.
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
- A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems.
- It was only when you implement a system of continuous small improvements that you achieve a different outcome.
- Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement.
- We think we need to change our results, but the results are not the problem. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results.
- 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.
- Goals are at odds with long-term progress.
- If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem 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.
- Focus on the overall system, rather than a single goal.
- There are little habits that are part of a larger system.
- The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
- Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Getting a percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
- If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.