3 things that help habits stick:1) Repetition. Habits form based on frequency, not time.2) Stable context. If the context is always changing, so is the behavior. You need a reliable environment.3) Positive emotions. If it feels good, you’ll want to repeat it.

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. By combining your skills, you reduce the level of competition, which makes it easier to stand out. You can shortcut the need for a genetic advantage (or for years of practice) by rewriting the rules. A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.

In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.

New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do.And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome.For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.

Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.

Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose. You can do it, but it requires a lot of effort and increases the tension in your life. Meanwhile, making your habits simple and easy is like removing the bend in the hose. Rather than trying to overcome the friction in your life, you reduce it.

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 actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.

Complaining about not achieving success despite working hard is like complaining about an ice cube not melting when you heated it from 25 to 31 degrees. All the action happens at 32 degrees.

A single decision is easy to dismiss.