Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
JAMES CLEARGetting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
More James Clear Quotes
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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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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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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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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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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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.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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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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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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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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You get what you repeat.
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