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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

James Clear

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
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
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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
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
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
At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
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Boredom Point Training
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
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

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