A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
JAMES CLEARProblem #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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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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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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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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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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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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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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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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