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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.

James Clear

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
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
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
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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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Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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

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.

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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.

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