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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

James Clear

If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
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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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
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
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
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
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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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
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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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World 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
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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