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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.

James Clear

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
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
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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote 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
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong 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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
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
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular

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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