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Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

James Clear

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat 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
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
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 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
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
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

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