The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior minus an effective plan to change.

Impulse control means learning to think it through before you act it out.

Habits are automatic urge action combinations. A trigger goes off; old urge-action-reaction cycles kick; old consequences happen again

By nature, human beings are habit-forming creatures. We cannot live without being controlled by our habits. Therefore, sober and responsible people who want to be free must carefully choose the habits to which they enslave themselves.

The averages person makes about 79 decisions per day. Most are small decisions that are made quickly and habitually. Others decisions are more important and require thought and reflection. Research suggests that the average time it takes for most people to make an important decision is about seven minutes.

I am capable of thinking, but I am not my thoughts. I am the being who thinks my thoughts. Therefore, I can change what I think and still be me.