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

James Clear

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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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim 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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait 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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
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
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself

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

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