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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.

James Clear

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
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
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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Creation Discipline Environment Perseverance Person Success Willing
It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior. You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven’t changed who you are.
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Belief Change Goal Habit Hard Planning Yourself
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Group Habit Imitation Myself Particular Powerful
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
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
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection 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
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
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
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
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
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
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate 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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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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