You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
JAMES CLEARSmall 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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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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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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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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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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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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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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