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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 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
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
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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
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
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
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
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself

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

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