Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick
by Jen Sincero
20 popular highlights from this book
Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick:
“Chances are excellent that deep down you’re scared to stop overspending because you’re trying to fill an emotional hole with stuff and experiences.”
“Our “realities” are determined by how we habitually perceive ourselves and our worlds.”
“Watch your words. And everyone else’s.”
“Perfectionism is just procrastination in a fancy outfit.”
“You have already created the “reality” in which you exist via the thoughts, beliefs, mantras, habits, and actions you’ve repeated over and over throughout your life.”
“By shifting your identity to align with the habits you’re working to adopt, you prepare yourself to live in a totally new reality by erasing the inner struggle of I’m doing X but I’m actually an impostor so it probably won’t last because it’s not really who I am.”
“When you repeat something enough times, you establish new neural pathways in the brain that your habit flows through effortlessly and automatically, allowing you to literally fuggetaboutit.”
“Changing your habits and your boundaries takes courage, audacity, and a whole lot of self-love.”
“Human beings would often rather adapt to the fun-free familiar instead of risking the unknown. Until (and unless) the familiar becomes so unbearable that they’re willing to risk taking the leap into the void of change.”
“If we don’t set our own clear and healthy boundaries, we spill out and become messy, murky blobs, intertwining our needs, roles, and identities with those of the people around us.”
“—repetition is the tool you’ll use to hack through the vines, wrestle fallen trees out of your way, and forge a new path through the jungle of your mind.”
“Хорошие привычки – это то, кем ты решаешь быть, а не то, что ты решаешь делать.”
“Наш выбор делает нас теми, кто мы есть. Поэтому если хочешь быть человеком с с несгибаемой волей, научись концентрироваться на преимуществах, а не на препятствиях или горестях на своём пути.”
“The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.”
“One of the premier causes of unnecessary drama is bad boundaries.”
“Belief is a muscle, and when you’re changing a stubborn old bad habit and really stretching yourself, a hell-bent decision is the perfect personal trainer to get your belief in shape.”
“Drama dies without an audience”
“When it comes to building great habits and ditching lame ones, your commitment to staying focused on who you’re becoming regardless of where you are/who you are right now is the mightiest power you’ve got.”
“Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our habits, and our habits become our realities.”
“One of the main reasons we fail to stick to new good habits and ditch negative ones is that we focus on changing what we’re doing (or not doing) without also making sure that we embrace this habit as a new and valuable part of our identity.”
