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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.

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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
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity 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
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life 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
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity

Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.

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