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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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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity 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
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
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
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
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
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
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
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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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Action Goal Happiness Rule Strong Yourself
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 genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself

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

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