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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

James Clear

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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World 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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work 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
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
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
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

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

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