Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEARGood habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEARIf you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
JAMES CLEARYou need to know who you want to be.
JAMES CLEARYou don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
JAMES CLEARBeing motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
JAMES CLEARMen are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
JAMES CLEARGood habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
JAMES CLEARHow can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
JAMES CLEARProblem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
JAMES CLEARWhen you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
JAMES CLEARSome people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
JAMES CLEARSmall 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.
JAMES CLEARWe don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEARAt some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
JAMES CLEARAt some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
JAMES CLEARWith 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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