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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

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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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote 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
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
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 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
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality 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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