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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

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
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Mistake Repeat Ruin Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.
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Goal Lose Winner
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.
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Culture Expectation Habit Normal People Surround Yourself
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim 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
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
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
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

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