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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

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
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
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
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
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote 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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
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
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
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

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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