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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.

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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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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
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.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
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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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
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
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 habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself
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
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
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule

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