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
JAMES CLEAR
James Clear on achievement
James Clear69 quotes“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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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
James ClearJames Clear But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
James ClearJames Clear You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
James ClearJames Clear A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
James ClearJames Clear Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
James ClearJames Clear 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.
James ClearJames Clear WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
James ClearJames Clear People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
James ClearJames Clear Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
James ClearJames Clear 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 ClearJames Clear 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.
James ClearJames Clear Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
James ClearJames Clear You get what you repeat.
James ClearJames Clear The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
James ClearJames Clear How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
James ClearJames Clear 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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