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@charleswiegand.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 12:29 PM

"And I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen."
–James Clear
From Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (2018)

#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #jamesclear

"And I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen." –James Clear From Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (2018) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #jamesclear Read alone, it sounds like a slogan about self-reliance. In place, it is something narrower and better. Clear has just described being the only junior cut from his high school varsity team, sitting in his car crying, and finishing his school career with eleven innings played. The sentence is not advice offered from the far side of success. It is what he decided while still sitting in the wreck of the thing he wanted. Note what he does not claim. Not that he could control the outcome, not that effort guarantees anything, only that nobody else was going to do it. That is a statement about ownership, not about power. He still believed he could be a good player, which turned out to be true, but the belief and the responsibility are kept separate in the sentence, and keeping them separate is what stops it collapsing into a motivational poster. It also sets up the book's actual argument. Atomic Habits is not about willpower or grand resolutions. It is about accumulating one-percent improvements until they compound. Taking responsibility, in that framework, means building a system rather than summoning resolve. The teenager in the car could not decide to become a college athlete. He could only decide who was going to be doing the work.
@globaladvisors.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:09 AM

#Quote: #JamesClear – Author of #AtomicHabits - https://with.ga/06qax
"#Winning isn't what makes you feel good. #Growth makes you feel good. Sometimes they are the same thing. When you achieve something for the first time, it's growth. You've reached a new level. The win feels sati...

@marcwilson1000.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:00 AM

#Quote: #JamesClear – Author of #AtomicHabits - https://with.ga/06qax
"#Winning isn't what makes you feel good. #Growth makes you feel good. Sometimes they are the same thing. When you achieve something for the first time, it's growth. You've reached a new level. The win feels sati...

@joyweber.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 1:42 PM

Happy Monday! I may be a little late to this book but I just finished it. Easy read. Fabulous book about our habits. Give it a read if you haven’t. A lot of valuable lessons. We all have some bad habits. 😜. #books #mustread #listen #Jamesclear