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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

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
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
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
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular 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
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
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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Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
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
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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

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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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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