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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

James Clear

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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
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Best Habit Measurement Progress Way
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
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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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Action Change Practice Way Work Yourself
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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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Better Different Inspirational Win Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
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
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

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

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