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.
JAMES CLEARMotivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
More James Clear Quotes
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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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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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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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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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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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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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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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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