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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.

James Clear

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
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
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small 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
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride 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
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare

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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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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