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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

James Clear

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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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
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
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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
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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
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
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
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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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
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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Boredom Point Training
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

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