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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

James Clear

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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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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
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
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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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work 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
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
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
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World 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
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart

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