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.
JAMES CLEARObjects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
More James Clear Quotes
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You need to know who you want to be.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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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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You get what you repeat.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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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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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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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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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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