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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.

James Clear

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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
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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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround 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
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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
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
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.

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