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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.

James Clear

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
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
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
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
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
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
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
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
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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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself

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