Newsletter Atomic Habits

"On any given day, you may struggle with your habits because you're too busy or too tired or too overwhelmed or hundreds of other reasons. Over the long run, the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-image gets in the way. This is why you can’t get too attached to one version of your identity.

Progress requires unlearning.

"It's hard to build momentum if you're dividing your attention."

Apply the Pareto Principle to your relationships. Who are the few people that deliver the majority of happiness in your life? Can you schedule time with one of them today?

Actress Elizabeth Bibesco on the importance of failure:

"We learn nothing by being right."

"Time assets vs. Time debts.

Time assets are choices that save you time in the future. Think: saying no to a meeting, automating a task, working on something that persists and compounds.

Time debts are choices that must be repaid and cost you time in the future. Think: saying yes to a meeting, doing sloppy work that will need to be revised, etc.

When you're living a good day, what is one habit that tends to be part of that day? Can you find time for that habit today?

What's the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What's the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant?

Most things are not worth optimizing. Master the big moves and move quickly and peacefully through the other stuff.

Journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber on starting before you feel ready:

"You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready."

"Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:

Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.

Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.

Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.

Stress. What a