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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.

James Clear

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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
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
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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
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
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
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
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
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
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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
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
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation

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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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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