Monday, February 18, 2019

Get to...................


Habits are attractive when we associate them with positive feelings, and we can use this insight to our advantage rather than to our detriment.

You can make habits more attractive if you can learn to associate them with a positive experience.  Sometimes, all you need is a slight mind-set shift.  For instance, we often talk about everything we have to do in a given day.  You have to wake up early for work.  You have to make another sales call for your business.  You have to cook dinner for your family.
     Now, imagine changing just one word:  You don't "have" to.  You "get" to.
     You get to wake up early for work.  You get to make another sales call for your business.  You get to cook dinner for your family.  By simply changing one word, you shift the way you view each event.  You transition from seeing these behaviors as burdens and you turn them into opportunities.

-James Clear,  Atomic Habits

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