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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
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
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.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
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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You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win 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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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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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
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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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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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