The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
JAMES CLEARYou don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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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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Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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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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You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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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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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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What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.
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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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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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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.
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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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