BITESIZE | How to Make New Habits Stick (& Break Old Ones) | James Clear #639

Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 145 of the podcast with James Clear, author of the best-selling book. Atomic habits. In this clip, James explains why small daily habits can have such a powerful impact on our lives, why focusing on systems rather than outcomes can lead to lasting change. And he also shares four simple principles to help our habits stake.

There are a variety of things that influence your outcomes in life. There's luck and randomness. There's your choices, uh, individual decisions you make, where to go to school, who to marry, what job to take, what career to pursue. And then there are your habits and your actions. And by definition, the first one, luck and randomness, is not under your control.

Now your choices, we, you know, we could talk more about that possibly, but the one that I've explored the most is your habits. And the reason is because they are decisions, they're, they're also choices, but they're ones that get repeated day in and day out. And I think for that reason, they exert an enormous force on your outcomes in life. And we could potentially boil it down and simplify it and say that your current life today is largely the sum of your habits. In many ways, it's the habits that you've been following for, say, the last six months or the last year or the last two years that have carried you to whatever results you have right now.

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