black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
JAMES CLEAR

Principle Stand Value Yourself
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
JAMES CLEAR

Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
JAMES CLEAR

Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
JAMES CLEAR

Aware Cure Poison Reflection
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
JAMES CLEAR

Born Education Genius Training
Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
JAMES CLEAR

Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
JAMES CLEAR

Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Oneself Start Writing
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
JAMES CLEAR

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.
JAMES CLEAR

Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
JAMES CLEAR

Better Different Inspirational Win 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.
JAMES CLEAR

Boredom Point Training
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall Goal Level Rise System 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.
JAMES CLEAR

Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
JAMES CLEAR

Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
JAMES CLEAR

Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
JAMES CLEAR

Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
JAMES CLEAR

Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
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.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEAR

Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
JAMES CLEAR

Goal Lose Winner
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
JAMES CLEAR

Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
JAMES CLEAR

Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
JAMES CLEAR

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes