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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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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System 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 need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality 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
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life Yourself
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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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
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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself

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

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