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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.

James Clear

You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
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
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
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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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
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
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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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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 should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
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
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote 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
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
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

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