It is a simple two-step process: Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins.

Similarly, a slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.

What you want is a “gateway habit” that naturally leads you down a more productive path.

One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.

If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses, and see how your daily choices will compound ten or twenty years down the line.

Small habits don’t add up. They compound.

Mastery requires patience.

Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe. When it comes to building habits that last—when it comes to building a system of 1 percent improvements—the problem is not that one level is “better” or “worse” than another. All levels of change are useful in their own way. The problem is the dire

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change.