Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
JAMES CLEARGood habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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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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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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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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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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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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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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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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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We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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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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The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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