Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
JAMES CLEARIt’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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You get what you repeat.
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It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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