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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.

James Clear

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World 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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time 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
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
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
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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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself

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