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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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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
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
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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 lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity 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
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
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
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run

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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