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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.

James Clear

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
Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
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
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
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
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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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
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 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
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win

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