Mike Hawkins Quotes

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

Habit is stronger than desire.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

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

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

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

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Repeating a new behavior is what makes change stick.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

I wish I were more disciplined.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Habits change into character.

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

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.