We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEARHabits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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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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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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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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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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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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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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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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