Stephen Guise

Are you ready to discover how smaller habits lead to bigger results? I sure hope so, because I’m excited to show you. Let’s go!

Mini habits are a pretty simple brain trick at the core, but also a life philosophy that values starting, letting action precede motivation, and believing that small steps can accumulate into giant leaps forward.

Bigger requirements look good on paper, but only action counts. Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results instead of one of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results.

When I feel resistance to a task, I make it smaller. Problem solved.

This means one thing—we’ve got to maximize our self-control reserves to be effective at changing ourselves.

Willpower is reliable, but only if you don’t run out of it.

Don’t imagine the easiest days; imagine the hardest days. If you can do something on the day you’re tired, stressed, and very busy, you can do it every day.

I wish you very small successes, over and over and over again.

To summarize, a mini habit is a VERY small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day. Small steps work every time, and habits are built by consistency, so the two were meant to be together.

Embracing imperfection in all phases of the process destroys excuses. It kills the fear of failure because it includes failure as part of the process.

Your best chance to reach your big dreams is through small goals in quantity.

Instead of expecting perfect results, the imperfectionist expects perfect progress and consistency.

Imperfectionists aren’t so ironic as to have perfect lives; they’re just happier, healthier, and more productive at doing what matters. Perfectionism is a limitation and imperfectionism is freedom, so give the solutions in this book a try and begin your transformation into an imperfectionist. You’ll be glad you did.

Never forget this: It’s easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently.

If we can create a general confidence in ourselves and stop attaching it to individual happenings, we’ll be more consistent winner and enjoy life more.

Make success easier than failure, and you’ll succeed.