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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

James Clear

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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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Hurt Work Yourself
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
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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Boredom Point Training
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
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 get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
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
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
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
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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection

Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

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