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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.

James Clear

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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
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
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
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
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
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
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
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

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