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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

James Clear

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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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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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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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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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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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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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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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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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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

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