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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.

James Clear

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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
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
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
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
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
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version 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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