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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

James Clear

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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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
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.
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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
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
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
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
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
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin 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.
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Boredom Point Training

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

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