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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.

James Clear

Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
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
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth 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
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
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
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself

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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