What I do every day matters more than what…
What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while I decided to take a daily photo of something beautiful or interesting. I hope that exercise would sharpen my sensibility by requiring that I watched throughout the day for subject worthy of photography. doing a habit every day is helpful the time of day matter? Important habit should be scheduled for the morning.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Better than Before - By Gretchen Rubin
In the book
Seize the clean slates, too — any new beginning, a new year, a new home, a new job, is a moment of special power for forming habits. Remember that what you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while, and that mastering the basics, ruthlessly, beats forever chasing some secret or shortcut. Where a habit merely automates, a ritual animates — the same action, done with meaning and attention, becomes a generator of feeling and not just efficiency, and like an athlete's pre-shot routine it pulls your focus onto the next play rather than the last one. […] Become the person you intend to be. Act like that person consistently until the act becomes the self; decide how you'll behave before the hard moment arrives; and use every clean slate — a new year, a new start — as a launch point for the habit you want. Trust the daily over the dramatic. What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while; automate the routine so your energy is free for what matters; and master the basics rather than chasing shortcuts. Stay a student of the world. Read widely to borrow other people's experience; learn by doing, not only by reading; ask those ahead of you what they wish they'd known; and question everything, passing each claim through a sieve before you keep it. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)