Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
JAMES CLEARIf you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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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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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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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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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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