You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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More James Clear Quotes
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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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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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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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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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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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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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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Men 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.
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Small 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.
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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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