Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

112 BRIANNA WIEST
What you do every single day accounts for the quality of
your life and the degree of your success. It’s not whether
you “feel” like putting in the work, but whether or not you
do it regardless.
This is because the outcomes of life are not governed by
passion; they are governed by principle.
You may not think what you did this morning was important,
but it was. You may not think that the little things add
up, but they do. Consider the age-old brainteaser: Would
you rather have $1 million in hand today or a penny that
doubles in value every day for the next month? The $1
million right now sounds great, but after a 31-day month,
that one penny would be worth over $10 million.
Making big, sweeping changes is not difficult because we
are flawed, incompetent beings. It’s difficult because we
are not meant to live outside of our comfort zones.
If you want to change your life, you need to make tiny,
nearly undetectable decisions every hour of every day
until those choices are habituated. Then you’ll just continue
to do them.
If you want to spend less time on your phone, deny yourself
the chance to check it one time today. If you want to
eat healthier, drink half a cup of water today. If you want
to sleep more, go to bed 10 minutes earlier tonight than
you did last night.