When setting goals, ambitious individuals often focus on peak performance and what they could achieve on their best day. However, a more effective approach is to determine what habits one could stick to even on their worst days. By establishing a baseline from the worst days, such as eating a salad with potato chips, or writing just one sentence a day, it becomes easier to maintain consistency and gradually scale up the habits on better days.
Our daily habits are the key to reaching our long-term goals, argues writer James Clear. His bestselling book, "Atomic Habits," distills the most compelling research on how to break bad habits and form good ones. He talks with Maya about how our habits shape our identity—for better or worse—and how to design our habits so they actually stick.
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