Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEARWHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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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.
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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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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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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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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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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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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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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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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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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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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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