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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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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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
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
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
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
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
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
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
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning 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
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
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
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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
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
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule

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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