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.
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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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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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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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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