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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.

James 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.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
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
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need 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
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem 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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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself

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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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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