How Do Habits Matter?

Habits matter not just because they can get you better results, but also because they can change your beliefs about who you are. In many ways, our results in life are kind of like a lagging measure or at least to a large degree, they're a lagged measure of the habits that preceded them. And so I think for all of those reasons, I encourage people to focus on building a system rather than worrying too much about a goal. The outcomes of success are highly visible and widely discussed. But the process of success is often invisible and hidden from view.