If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
JAMES CLEARRedesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
More James Clear Quotes
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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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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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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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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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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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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You need to know who you want to be.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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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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