Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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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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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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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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