Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
JAMES CLEARIn 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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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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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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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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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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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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