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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.

James Clear

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
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
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
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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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
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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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself

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