Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
JAMES CLEARProblem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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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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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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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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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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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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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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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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