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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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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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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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You get what you repeat.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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