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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.

James Clear

Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Act Belief Believe Identity Person Research
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
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
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
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right 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
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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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
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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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
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
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
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
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection 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
Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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Fundamental Habit Improvement Live Ourselves
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful

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