Bliss-Girls

A book by James Clear

1. If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
2. All big things come from small beginnings.
3. Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
4. We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking. You do not tell your hair to grow, your heart to pump, your lungs to breathe, or your stomach to digest. And yet your body handles all this and more on autopilot. You are much more than your conscious self.
5. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
6. We’re so used to doing what we’ve always done that we don’t stop to question whether it’s the right thing to do at all.
7. Given that we are more dependent on vision than on an other sense, it should come as no surprise that visual cues are the greatest catalysts of our behaviour. For this reason, a small change in what you see can lead to a bug shift in what you do.
8. Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
9. Our behaviour is not defined by the objects in the environment but by our relationship to them.
10. The people with the best self-control are the typically the ones who need to use it the least. It’s easier to practice self-restraint when you don’t have to use it very often. So, yes, perseverance, grit, and will-power are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
11. Bad habits are autocatalytic: the process feeds itself. You feel bad, so you eat junk food. Because you eat junk food, you feel bad.
12. It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfilment of it – that gets us to take action.
13. One of the deepest human desires is to belong. We want to be acknowledged, recognized, and praised. Once we fit in, we start looking for ways to stand out.
14. We soak up the qualities and practices of those around us. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.
15. If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
16. It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort. Out of all the possible actions we could take, the one that is realized is the one that delivers the most value for least effort. We are motivated to do what is easy.
17. Certainly, you are capable of doing very hard things. The problem is that some days you feel like doing the hard work and some days you feel like giving in.
18. The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
19. The average person spends over two hours per day on social media. What could you do with an extra six hundred hours per year?
20. The sweeter the first fruit of a habit, the more bitter are it’s later fruits.
21. Each small win feeds your desire.
22. The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
23. Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
24. When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different. A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favours their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.
25. Mastery is the process of narrowing your focus to a tiny element of success, repeating it until you have internalized the skill, and then using this new habit as the foundation to advance to the next frontier of your development. Each habit unlocks the next level of performance. It’s an endless cycle.
26. Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
27. Small habits don’t add up. They compound.