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.
JAMES CLEARHabits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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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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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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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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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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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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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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