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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat 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
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
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
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
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
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life 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
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
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

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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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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