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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

James Clear

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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation 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
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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
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
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
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

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

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