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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 Clear

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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
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
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
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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value 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
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life 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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself

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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