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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

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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity 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
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait 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
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
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
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
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
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
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

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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