We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEARIt’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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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 like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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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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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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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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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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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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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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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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