Matthew Vaughn Quotes

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.

I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I promised to myself that I would wake up at 6 A.M. every day - it didn't even last for a week.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.

The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

I get up at the same time every morning.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.