We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEARA lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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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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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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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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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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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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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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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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