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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.

James Clear

Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong 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
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
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin 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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote Yourself
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
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

We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.

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