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The 1st Law of Behavior Change is make it obvious.
The two most common cues are time and location.
Creating an implementation intention is a strategy you can use to pair a new habit with a specific time and location.
The implementation intention formula is: I will [BEHAVIOR] at [TIME] in [LOCATION].
Habit stacking is a strategy you can use to pair a new habit with a current habit.
The habit stacking formula is: After [CURRENT HABIT], I will [NEW HABIT].
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:
Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.
Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.
Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.
Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them.
3-2-1: One of the Most Valuable Skills in Life, and Starting Before
You Feel Ready
James Clear
The revolutionary nature of the church was that it didn’t focus on specific locations of oppression. The church didn’t focus on chipping away at a Roman injustice here or a Roman injustice there. The church had a more radical approach—and I use that word intentionally. The word radical comes from the Latin word radix meaning “root.” The church was radical in that it was pulling up the roots of Roman society, calling into question the sacred foundations upon which imperial Rome was built. The church challenged the sacred and patriotic truths that justified Roman oppression and the belief that the empire was divinely ordained and, thus, beyond critique. Because, you know, god and country always go hand in hand. Once again, it’s the spiritual and the political, two sides of the same coin. Thus the revolutionary proclamation that Jesus of Nazareth was “Lord of all” (Acts 10:36), even over Caesar. And while Jesus did not consider his isa Theo “equal to god” status as something to be taken by force—choosing kenosis over harpagmon—the Lordship of Jesus did invalidate the spiritual legitimacy and authority of Caesar and imperial Rome. Ideologically speaking, Christianity made the empire subject to critique and dissent. Once Christ was confessed as Lord, blind obedience to empire was no longer automatic and assumed. Christianity had shrunk empire down to size. The emperor, the Christians pointed out, had no clothes. And standing naked and exposed before the eyes of their subjects, the empires of the world, then as now, lashed out. This is why the Romans coined a word to describe the early Christians. The Romans called the early Christians atheists—people who denied the gods of the empire, people who rejected the sacred foundations upon which their society had been built. And while the early church might have been nonviolent, this spiritual revolt and revolution made them dangerous.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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