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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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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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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When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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You get what you repeat.
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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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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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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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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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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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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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