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
JAMES CLEARAt 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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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
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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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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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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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