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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.

James Clear

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
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
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
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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
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 make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
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
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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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Goal Happiness Mentality Problem Yourself
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training

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