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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.

James Clear

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
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
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
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
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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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
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
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
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality 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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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
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
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular

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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