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

James Clear

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
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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
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
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
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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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
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
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality 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
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
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
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself

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

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