A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
JAMES CLEARWe don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
More James Clear Quotes
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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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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A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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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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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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Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.
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