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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.

James Clear

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
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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Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
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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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
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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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself

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