About This Book

- 🌱 **Identity Change Over Outcome**: Focus on who you want to become rather than just what you want to achieve; every action is a vote for your desired identity. - 🗂️ **Habit Awareness**: Use tools like the Habits Scorecard and Pointing-and-Calling to increase awareness of your habits, helping you distinguish between good, bad, and neutral behaviors. - 🔄 **Implementation Intentions & Habit Stacking**: Create specific plans for when and where to act on new habits, and pair them with existing habits to make them easier to adopt. - 🏗️ **Environment Design**: Shape your environment to make good habits obvious and bad habits invisible, as context plays a crucial role in behavior. - 📈 **Reflection and Improvement**: Regularly review your habits and progress to ensure they align with your goals, and remember that small, consistent changes can lead to remarkable results over time.

Top Highlights

• 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.
• changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years. We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.1
• 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 p...
• You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.23
• Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy. Habits are a double-edged sword.15 Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up, which is why understanding the details is crucial. You need to know how habits…