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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.

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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
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
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
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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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work 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
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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
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
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
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

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.

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