A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
JAMES CLEARWith 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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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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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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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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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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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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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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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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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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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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