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

James Clear

Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
Men 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.
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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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
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
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True

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

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