http://jamesclear.com/identity-based-habits inf_contact_key=7681a092fda4e7f1d8c1b1d71cc19d2e5ca671f0e557862e1cfd5d6c46e146b2

“Performance and appearance goals are great, but they aren’t the same as habits. If you’re already doing a behavior, then these types of goals can help drive you forward. But if you’re trying to start a new behavior, then I think it would be far better to start with an identity–based goal.

Changing your beliefs isn’t nearly as hard as you might think. There are two steps.

1. Decide the type of person you want to be.

2. Prove it to yourself with small wins.

In my experience, when you want to become better at something, proving your identity to yourself is far more important than getting amazing results. This is especially true at first.

If you’re looking to make a change, then I say stop worrying about results and start worrying about your identity. Become the type of person who can achieve the things you want to achieve. Build the habit now. The results can come later.”

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/india-fact-of-the-day-3.html

“One statistic above all explains the excitement India kindles: just 18 people in every 1,000 own a car. In China the figure is 58, according to the World Bank, while in most European countries it is more than 500. “India’s level of car ownership per capita is even lower than in Sudan, or Afghanistan,” says Tomas Ernberg, head of Volvo in India. “So in the long term there is bound to be growth, enormous growth.”

The market is also strikingly new. Barely 20 years ago India’s “Licence Raj” restricted aspirant motorists to two basic choices: the grand Hindustan Ambassador, an imitation of the venerable British Morris Oxford; and the boxy Maruti-Suzuki 800 hatchback, the country’s first (and then only) people’s car.”

http://yogadork.com/news/yoga-related-studies-are-increasing/

“As the plot above shows, there has been roughly a factor of 10 increase in the number of yoga-related scientific papers per year since the late 1990′s. In fact, there were 41 more papers published last year than in all the 1990′s combined.

And we could be in for the biggest year yet. There have already been 74 studies published in 2013, which sets a pace for 380 yoga-related studies this year.”

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

-William Shakespeare