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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

James Clear

Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System 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
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
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.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version 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

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

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