The List: 10 Sobering James Clear Quotes on Making Progressīelow, you will find our list of James Clear quotes on making progress from his book, Atomic Habits. Don’t focus on the big leaps focus on the slow and steady gains. A little forward every day is better than big jumps forward from someone who quits.
What if, instead of pressuring yourself to execute your plans perfectly-every single day-you focus on taking as many steps forward as you can-no matter how small-given the circumstances and curveballs of the day? What if you focused on being the type of person who embraces imperfect progress? The type of person who always shows up and never gives up because they always change it up when something comes up-the type of person who goes ALL-IN on their goals with an all-or-something mindset. Or, let’s say you decide to try again and you get back on track by reaching your 10 steps for a few more days but then you get sick and only get to 5 steps for 3 days in a row? If you didn’t quit before, you should quit now and maybe blame your sickness for ruining your streak, right? …I think it would be a shame if you quit after either instance. Because you weren’t able to get to 10 you should quit all together and go back to the drawing board, right? But on day 11, you wake up late, miss some steps and are only able to get 8 done. Let’s say that your plan for improvement requires you to take 10 action steps every day and you start off strong and execute all 10 action steps for each of the first 10 days of this new initiative-you’re right on track. All-or-something mindsets err on the side of imperfect progress. An all-or-something type person will have something come up and will do something that contributed to forward progress anyway.Īll-or-nothing mindsets err on the side of perfectionism.
Either everything they planned is unfolding well or everything they planned is unfolding not quite as expected, but they’re executing their best in spite of the challenges and curveballs anyway-because as we all know, things are bound to come up that will hold you up, throw you off, slow you down, and mess with your flow. Either everything they had planned is unfolding perfectly and is being executed flawlessly, or it’s not and they place blame, quit, and go back to the drawing board (or consume passive entertainment and forget about the effort all together).Īn all-or-something person is the type of person who is either all-in or at least some-of-the-way-in. An all-or-nothing person is the type of person who is either all-in or all-out. When it comes to following through with new goals or resolutions, don’t be an all-or-nothing-be an all-or-something. “It is better to make many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” Proverb
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