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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.

James Clear

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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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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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You get what you repeat.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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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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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.

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