Yo, today's QLDS, the actions that you take, provide evidence for who you are.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the Quot of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Croxson,

we got James Clear, author of the Uber popular book, Atomic Habits on the show today.

And today he's going to talk about or reveal to you, I should say, the four stages of habit formation.

Because remember the results that you're getting today are the culminations of actions that you've taken in the past.

And most of us are taking the very same actions every single day, which are creating our results.

And when you take the same actions every single day, that arises from those actions arise from our habits.

So you got to get beneath the hood and look at the habits that are creating your results.

And if you want different results, you're going to have to change your habits.

But first this.

One way to think about it is just kind of basic math. Like if you just look at the numbers, if you were able to improve by 1% each day for an entire year,

and those games compound, you would end up 37 times better at the end of the year.

And if you were to get 1% worse, you would whittle yourself almost all the way down to zero.

What's interesting here is that everybody wants a transformation, right?

Everybody wants a radical improvement, one rapid success.

But we failed to realize that small habits and little choices are transforming us every day already.

For the rest of this talk, there are four stages of habit formation. I'm going to take you through each of those four.

So the four stages are noticing, wanting, doing and liking, noticing, wanting, doing and liking.

One of my favorite things about noticing, one of my favorite strategies for discussing it, it's called implementation intentions.

Many people think that they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity.

They think that they need to get more motivated, that they need willpower in order to execute on a habit.

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