Clear Thinking

From Shane Parrish's book Clear Thinking on the four habits you'll need to build or break habits:

1. Self-accountability: holding yourself accountable for developing your abilities, managing your inabilities, and using reason to govern your actions.
2. Self-knowledge: knowing your own strengths and weaknesses - and what you are capable of doing and what you're not.
3. Self-control: mastering your fears, desires, and emotions.
4. Self-confidence: trusting your abilities and your value to others.

Or as Parrish puts it, "If you train yourself to constantly think, feel, and act in ways that further your most important goals - if, in other words, you build strength - then inertia becomes a nearly unstoppable force that unlocks your potential." 

It may seem that I'm almost reading the book for you or shilling for Shane Parrish but my real goal is to write down these life lessons as a way of trying to reinforce them in my mind. You should take them to heart as well.