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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

James Clear

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Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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Habit Life Product Success Time Transformation
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
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
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
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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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.
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Best Build Choice Habit Popular Yourself
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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Action Person Type Vote 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
You need to know who you want to be.
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Identity Personality Yourself
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
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

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