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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.

James Clear

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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.
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Habit Performance Regular
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits
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Deal Habit Live Ourselves Quality Run
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
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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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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Best Direction Goal Goodness Progress System
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
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Habit Improvement Interest
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
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Inspirational Life Professional Schedule
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
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
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
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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Current Result Tragedy Worth Yourself

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