Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
JAMES CLEARThe 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.
More James Clear Quotes
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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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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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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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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You get what you repeat.
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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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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 do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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