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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.

James Clear

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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
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
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
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.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
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
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
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
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
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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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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