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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

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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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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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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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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.
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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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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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Choice Early Habit Imitation
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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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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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Call Conscious Direct Fate Life 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
The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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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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