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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
James ClearJames Clear The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
James ClearJames Clear Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
James ClearJames Clear Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
James ClearJames Clear Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
James ClearJames Clear 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.
James ClearJames Clear Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
James ClearJames Clear Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
James ClearJames Clear 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.
James ClearJames Clear Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
James ClearJames Clear 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.
James ClearJames Clear Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
James ClearJames Clear Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
James ClearJames Clear Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
James ClearJames Clear If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
James ClearJames Clear You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Self-care is a continuous, never-ending journey of choosing yourself over and over and over again.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson This brain of mine tends to complicate the simplest of things.
Saloni VermaSaloni Verma I realize, no matter how much we grew, no matter how much we may have learnt, at the end of the day we both lost- because we didn’t have each other.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry Here you are, another heartache to guard under my wings as I wait wondering when it’ll be time for me to fly.
Renee StoneRenee Stone I write what I can’t say. I weep for these emotions.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Your speed in progress doesn’t matter. Forward is forward.
Diana TurnerDiana Turner We have engaged ourselves so much in the idea of self love, that everyone else appears to be empty shelves.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi Keep chasing your dreams. Keep chasing your story.
Lily DiazLily Diaz
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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur WardWilliam Arthur Ward Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
Walter ScottWalter Scott In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
Og MandinoOg Mandino If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
Og MandinoOg Mandino You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
Peter DruckerPeter Drucker We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Phil McGrawPhil McGraw We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
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