Life changing quotes from Atomic Habits Book

  20 Life-changing quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear

1. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
2. People make a few small changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop.
3. 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.
4. All big things come from small beginnings.
5. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger.
6. Forget about goals, focus on systems instead.
7. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
8. A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems.
9. It was only when you implement a system of continuous small improvements that you achieve a different outcome.
10. Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Goals are at odds with long-term progress.
14. If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system.
15. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again, not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
16. Focus on the overall system, rather than a single goal.
17. There are little habits that are part of a larger system.
18. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
19. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Getting a percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
20. If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.