The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
JAMES CLEARYour culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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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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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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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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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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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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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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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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Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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