James Clear

Time will magnify whatever you feed it.

So if you have good habits, even if they're little and seem relatively minor on any given day,

You'll continue to put yourself in a stronger position day after day.

In many ways, if you have good habits, you're on the right trajectory.

And so all you need is time.

You just need some patience.

But if you have bad habits, time becomes your enemy.

And every day that goes by, you kind of dig the hole a little bit deeper.

And so this idea that small habits can make an enormous difference, what it really is about is about emphasizing –

trajectory rather than position.

You know, there's a lot of discussion about position in life.

How much money is in your bank account?

What's the current number on the scale?

What's the stock price?

What are the quarterly earnings?

We have like all these ways of measuring your current position.

And then if the measurement isn't what you wanted it to be or you haven't achieved what you set out to achieve, you kind of start judging yourself or feeling guilty for it or you feel bad about it.

And what I'm encouraging is to say, listen, just for a minute,

Let's stop worrying so much about our current position and instead focus a little bit more on our current trajectory.

And this is why one of the key things I talk about in Atomic Habits is getting 1% better each day.