A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.

Chapter 1 : The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. Chapter 1 : The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. Too often, we convince ourselves that massive success requires massive action.Too often, we convince ourselves that massive success requires massive action.