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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.

James Clear

Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate 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
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
As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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
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
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way

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