black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

James Clear

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
JAMES CLEAR

Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
JAMES CLEAR

Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
JAMES CLEAR

Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
JAMES CLEAR

Choice Early Habit Imitation
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. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
JAMES CLEAR

Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
JAMES CLEAR

Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
JAMES CLEAR

Consumption Design World Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Performance Regular
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
JAMES CLEAR

Better Different Inspirational Win 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.
JAMES CLEAR

Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
JAMES CLEAR

Better Count Feeling Impact Run
At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.
JAMES CLEAR

Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point 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.
JAMES CLEAR

Close Effort Limitation People Rare
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
JAMES CLEAR

Motion Object Start Stay Time
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
JAMES CLEAR

Habit Oneself Start Writing

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Clear Quotes