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The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.

James Clear

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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
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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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work

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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