James Clear

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

Here is James’s personal website.

Personally, this sentence is the most useful piece of information I gained after reading James Clear’s best-seller, Atomic Habits. I now design my environment to make better choices easier to make. For example, I don’t buy snacks. And if I did it would only be a servings worth. I know myself too well, and I know I don’t have the self-control to leave a packet of chips in the cupboard for a week. So I don’t buy them in the first place.

Furthermore, the book explains how our environment controls our actions. So now, if I am planning on going for a run in the morning, I set up my running gear so it is the first thing I open my eyes to when I wake up. All there is left to do is change my clothes, and once you do that, trust me, there are no excuses.