Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
JAMES CLEARProblem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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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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You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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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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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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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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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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You get what you repeat.
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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect 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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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