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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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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat 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
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation

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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