Over the long run … the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self image gets in the way.*
James Clear

What might change if we understood meaningful action to be something we could let happen, simply by standing out of the way?**
Oliver Burkeman

New habits struggle in the wrestling match that ensues
with the old self,
And with them, our hopes;
I must get out of my own way and allow the change
that is inevitable –
A new self to emerge.

*James Clear’s Atomic Habits;
**Oliver Burkeman’s The Imperfectionist newsletter: In Your Own Way.