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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.

James Clear

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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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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
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
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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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work 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
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection 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
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life 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
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
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
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
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
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
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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

Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.

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