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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

James Clear

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
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
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
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection 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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
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
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
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

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

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