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You need to know who you want to be.

James Clear

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
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Fall Goal Level Rise System Yourself
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version 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
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
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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Close Effort Limitation People Rare
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
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
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
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
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
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
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place

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