Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
JAMES CLEARSuccess is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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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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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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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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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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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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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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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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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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