You need to know who you want to be.
JAMES CLEARYou do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
More James Clear Quotes
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The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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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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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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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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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 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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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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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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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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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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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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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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