First we make our habits, and then they make us
― John Dryden, poet and literary critic
Habits can be sustained for years and years. Goals often compel acts of heroism, which are not sustainable in the long run. As Bruce Lee once said, “long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
People in time travel movies always talk about going back in time and accidentally changing one small thing that reverberates into an immensely large change today.
In real life people never talk about making a small, deliberate, positive change today in their own life timeline for an immense positive change in their future.