About this quote

Most people focus entirely on their dreams while ignoring the boring daily habits that actually build those dreams. If you want to run a marathon but do not schedule your morning runs, your dream is useless. Look at your calendar and your daily environment instead of your vision board. What does your routine actually force you to do every day? Your daily habits dictate what you actually achieve.

When to use it

• When I kept skipping my evening workouts, I packed my gym bag the night before and placed it in the passenger seat of my car so I had to drive to the gym after work.
• I wanted to learn Spanish but kept putting it off, so I set a rule to practice on my phone for ten minutes every day while my morning coffee was brewing.
• To save money for a house, my partner and I set up an automatic transfer to our savings account the very hour our paychecks hit each month.
• My writing project was stalled because I waited for inspiration, but I finally made progress when I blocked out 8:00 AM every Tuesday and turned off my phone.