Your environment dictates your behavior. If you want to practice guitar more often, put the guitar stand in the middle of your living room. If you want to eat healthier, place fruits and vegetables at eye-level in the refrigerator.
To break a bad habit, invert the laws: Make it Invisible, Unattractive, Difficult, and Unsatisfying. Atomic Habits by James Clear -.epub-
Motion is planning, strategizing, and learning. Action is the behavior that delivers an actual result. Do not mistake preparation for progress. Your environment dictates your behavior
This insight flips conventional thinking about success on its head. Dramatic makeovers and heroic efforts often fail because they rely on motivation, which is fleeting. Lasting change, Clear argues, emerges from systems, not goals. “You do not rise to the level of your goals,” he states. “You fall to the level of your systems”. The purpose of setting goals is to win the game; the purpose of building systems is to keep playing it. This shift from outcome-based thinking to process-based thinking is the foundation upon which everything else in the book is built. To break a bad habit, invert the laws:
Don't try to "read one book a week"; start by "reading one page tonight."
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. Master the art of showing up first. 4. Make it Satisfying (The Reward)