Researchers began finding that habit replacement worked pretty well for many people until the stresses of life–such as finding out your mom has cancer, or your marriage is coming apart–got too high, at which point alcoholics often fell off the wagon. Academics asked why, if habit replacement is so effective, it seemed to fail at such critical moments. And as they dug into alcoholics’ stories to answer that question, they learned that replacement habits only become durable new behaviors when they are accompanied by something else. One group of researchers at the Alcohol Research Group in California, for instance, noticed a pattern in interviews. Over and over again, alcoholics said the same thing: Identifying cues and choosing new routines is important, but without another ingredient, the new habits never fully took hold. The secret, the alcoholics said, was God. Charles Duhigg
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Jim Valvano
Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
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Roy T. Bennett
If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.
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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.
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Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
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More Quotes By Charles Duhigg
Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.
If you believe you can change–if you make it a habit–the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs–and becomes automatic–it’s not only real, it starts to...
When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.
The same process that makes AA so effective–the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe–happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
