The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
JAMES CLEARMen are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
More James Clear Quotes
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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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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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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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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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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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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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