Systems are about the processes that lead to those results. Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. Success is the product of daily habits-not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. Every little thing – good or bad – becomes a habit over time that will compound and work for or against us depending on whether it’s positive or negative! I definitely notice much more of what I do each day.(Remember – journey before destination – systems are like the journey and the goals are our destinations). I realised that systems are more important than goals since systems are what really takes us to our goals.From now on whenever I seek to change my behaviour I look inwards trying to change my identity first instead of starting with the desired outcome.It helped me build healthy habits like going to the gym or taking my supplements.You want to know how you can build systems that will support your goals.You want to discover how habits are formed,.You want to deliberately change your habits,.That being said, you’ll really enjoy this book if: We’re all “made of” habits therefore this book is inherently about our behaviours and what all of us do every day. There’s really no limit to who should read Atomic Habits. By making small habits a part of our identity we can over time get to our goals no matter how big or small they are. This book helped me understand the difference between systems and goals and why the former is more important. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement – it’s the good and bad things that we do each and every day that compound over time to create real change.To achieve our goals we need to first build systems made of single processes and habits that will take us to our goals.Real change comes from the compound effects of hundreds of small decisions or habits that over time accumulate to produce remarkable results.

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