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.
JAMES CLEARWhen 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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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.
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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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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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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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Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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