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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

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
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
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
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point 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
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win

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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