Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
JAMES CLEARAt some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
More James Clear Quotes
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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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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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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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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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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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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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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You get what you repeat.
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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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