Top Highlights

• If you don’t feel rewarded by doing small steps and making gradual improvements, then you’ll rarely stick with something long enough to feel the accomplishment of a big payoff.
• We’re generally more motivated to avoid pain than to gain pleasure.  If, in the back of a person's mind, they feel like they won't be successful, they'll often find ways to avoid getting started in order to avoid feeling like a failure.
• How you define success will determine when you feel successful. Habits are built when you feel rewarded each time you engage in a behavior. Focusing only on results keeps you from achieving results by distracting you from the process.  Focusing on the process ensures you both get the results and enjoy the journey along the way. 
• The reason we feel rewarded by something emotionally is because it meets one or more of the six human needs.  Cloe Madanes and Tony Robbins have talked about the six human needs that drive all of our behavior.  Those needs are certainty (also referred to as comfort), variety (also referred to as excitement or entertainment), connection, significanc...
• over the old. Recap There are three parts to the habit process. 1) Cue 2) Routine 3) Reward Rewards are usually emotional.  We feel a reward when we meet one or more of the six human needs. The six human needs are comfort, variety, connection, significance, growth, and contribution. Habits stay programmed in the brain.  The way to overcome a bad ha...