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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.

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
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Authentic Direction Feeling Genuine Head Right Yourself
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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Boredom Face Fall In Love Improvement Point Yourself
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Motion Object Start Stay Time
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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
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
Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
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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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
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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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
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.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
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
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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Better Count Feeling Impact Run
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.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
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Born Death Discipline Man Soft
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True

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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