Jessie Pavelka Quotes

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

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.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.