Values Determine Destiny

If your job is not aligned with your values, you'll end up questioning the possibility of doing it for the next 15, 20, or 30 years.

The good part about it is the fact that this will point you in the right direction, where changes need to be made.

Our values determine success regardless of external metrics. This principle shows:

• Good values are reality-based, controllable, and constructive
• Bad values are fantasy-based, uncontrollable, and socially destructive

Decisive moments set the options available to your future self. A habit must be established before it can be improved.

Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.

Many habits occur at decisive moments—choices that are l...