Stephen Guise Quotes & Sayings

We're quick to blame ourselves for lack of progress, but slow to blame our strategies. Then we repeat them over and over again, trying to make them work. But here's the thing - if you fail using a particular strategy more than a few times, you need to try another one. It doesn't matter if it works for everyone else if it doesn't work for you! This is a lesson I wish I had learned years ago. — Stephen Guise

Never forget this: It's easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently. — Stephen Guise

One small step + desired behavior = high probability of further steps — Stephen Guise

When you repeat a behavior over time, your brain learns to automate the process. It's more energy efficient to automatically do something than to manually weigh your options and decide to act the same way every time. When you make a decision very quickly, it is probably from habit, even if you think you're actively deciding. In a way, you made the decision a while ago. — Stephen Guise

We make the grave error of redefining partial success as "failure. — Stephen Guise

As I age, I realize that now is yesterday's later, and that later is a bad plan. — Stephen Guise

Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results instead of one of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results. — Stephen Guise

True self-discipline is not when you have someone ordering you to do push-ups, it's when you decide on your own to do them. — Stephen Guise

Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle. — Stephen Guise

Before we get any further, I want you to understand that this book will not help you quit smoking or control a gambling addiction. Mini habits are for good habits only - adding positive behaviors to your life — Stephen Guise

Be happy, but never satisfied. — Stephen Guise

Happiness decreases your ability to perform concrete goals, but since the concrete part of mini habits is, for example, just one push-up, it's still easy to do while in an abstract state of mind. It's so small that it requires very little mental energy and attention. And since happiness increases performance and focus on abstract goals, after your concrete goal, you can rely on your abstract goal of "being fit" to make you want to exercise more. — Stephen Guise

it's hard to believe that next time will be different (especially if you're using the same strategy that failed last time). — Stephen Guise

If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech — Stephen Guise