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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.

James Clear

Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
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.
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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
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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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
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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Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong Yourself
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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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Boredom Point Training
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself

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