How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
JAMES CLEARThe most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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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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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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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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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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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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You get what you repeat.
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You need to know who you want to be.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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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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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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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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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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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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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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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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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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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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