Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
JAMES CLEAREvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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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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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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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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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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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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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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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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