You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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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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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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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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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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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You get what you repeat.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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