The Habit Flywheel

Message/Experiment of the Week:

Do you have a hard time starting new habits and stopping old habits? That is because habits are like a flywheel. They are hard to get going, and then once you get them going, they are hard to stop. They are also very important because the quality of your habits determines the quality of your life.

For an experiment think of one habit you want to add to your life and commit 100% to stick with it until you get the habit flywheel going and that habit becomes almost automatic.

Quotes of the Week:

• "Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipation of results. … The great thing, then, in all education, is to make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and to guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague." ―William James, Habits https://archive.org/details/habitjam00jameuoft

• “Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fisherman and the deck-hand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness, and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. It keeps different social strata from mixing.” ―William James, Habits https://archive.org/details/habitjam00jameuoft

Videos of the Week:

The Tactics & Habits That Create Billionaires - Dan Martell

How CEOs Schedule Their Day - Dan Martell

Song of the Week:

I Lived OneRepublic - Cover by Kenny Packer

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