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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

James Clear

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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life 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
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World 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
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

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