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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?

James Clear

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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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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win 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
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
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
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way

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