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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.

James Clear

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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
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Boredom Point Training
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful

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