Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
JAMES CLEARI didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
More James Clear Quotes
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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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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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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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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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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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When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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