Start quantifying your days by how many healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly you begin to make progress. - Brianna Wiest

As your body self-regulates, routine becomes the pathway to “flow2.

As writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday has noted, epiphanies are not life-altering.9 It’s not radical moments of action that give us long-lasting, permeating change — it’s the restructuring of our habits. The idea is what science philosopher Thomas Kuhn dubbed a “paradigm shift.” Kuhn suggested we don’t change our lives in flashes of brilliance, but through a slow process in which assumptions unravel and require new explanations. It’s in these periods of flux that microshifts happen and breakthrough-level change begins to take shape.

Bad feelings should not always be interpreted as deterrents. They are also indicators that you are doing something frightening and worthwhile