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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

James Clear

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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft

Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

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