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.
JAMES CLEARWhat do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
More James Clear Quotes
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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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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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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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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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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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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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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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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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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