Danny's Digital Scrapbook

Rewards are the end goal of every habit. The cue is about noticing the reward. The craving is about wanting the reward. The response is about obtaining the reward.

Every Olympian wants to win a gold medal. Every candidate wants to get the job. And if successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers. It wasn't the goal of winning the Tour de France that propelled the British cyclists to the top of the sport. Presumably, they had wanted to win the race every year before just like every other professional team. The goal had always been there. It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.

Habit stacking is a special form of an implementation intention. Rather than pairing your new habit with a particular time and loca-tion, you pair it with a current habit.

Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.

We often dismiss small changes because they don't seem to matter very much in the moment.

Approach is everything. With the right approach, you can say just about anything. With the wrong approach, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong; it won't work.

When you wait for your boss to tell you what to do, your boss then has to think about how to do their job and your job. If you're always waiting to be handed more responsibility or a new opportunity, you'll likely become someone who can't be handed anything of importance.

There is a confidence that comes from believing that God has You where he wants you.

Those leaders who feel a strong sense of ownership and have made the crucial connection between what their job is and how it drives results for the organization are more deeply engaged.

Taking on too much at work without prioritizing, thinking I can be the savior of all who are convinced they need time with me, making commitments I cannot possibly keep without running myself into the ground, reacting and responding to every need as though it were mine to fix, trying to be perfect and never disappoint all of these compulsive behaviors ensure I will never come away and rest awhile.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.